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   Mike Powell to All   
   Chinese nationals will no   
   28 Aug 25 09:19:16   
   
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   Chinese nationals will no longer be allowed to manage Pentagon cloud services   
      
   Date:   
   Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:07:04 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   The US Defense department will now review who is managing its cloud services.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered a review of the   
   involvement of Chinese nationals in managing cloud services for the Pentagon   
   and wider US military.    
      
   For nearly a decade, Microsoft has used Chinese coders, remotely supervised    
   by US contractors to support sensitive Department of Defense cloud systems -   
   and if youre thinking America First and common sense, this doesnt pass either   
   of those tests," Hesgeth said.    
      
   The declaration comes after a ProPublica report claimed Microsofts use of   
   Chinese engineers to maintain Department of Defense computer systems with   
   minimal supervision by US personnel was inherently risky - but Microsoft has   
   said it will soon stop using these China based-engineers for US military tech   
   support.   
      
   Digital escorts    
      
   These workers were supervised by digital escorts - who were found to be    
   mainly low-skilled and low-paid workers with very little coding experience.    
      
   One such escort told ProPublica ; were trusting that what theyre doing isnt   
   malicious, but we really cant tell.    
      
   The use of Chinese nationals to service Department of Defense cloud   
   environments, its over, Hegseth went on. Were requiring a third-party audit    
   of Microsofts digital escort program, including the code and the submissions   
   by Chinese nationals.    
      
   Not only that, but Hegseth will also require the Department of Defense to   
   carry out a separate investigation of the digital escort program and the   
   Chinese Microsoft employees involved.    
      
   The program was designed to comply with contracting rules, but it exposed the   
   department to unacceptable risk, he argued.    
      
   These investigations will help us determine the impact of this digital escort   
   workaround. Did they put anything in the code that we dont know about? Were   
   going to find out.    
      
   Going forward, all software vendors for the DoD will also have to identify    
   and terminate any Chinese involvement in DoD systems.    
      
   It blows my mind that Im even saying these things, that we allowed it to   
   happen - thats why were attacking it so hard, Hegseth said.   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/chinese-nationals-will-no-longer-be-allowed-to-m   
   anage-pentagon-cloud-services   
      
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