POLITICS: Big Tech’s Big Greed Gave China Keys to US Defense Systems – U-S-NEWS.COM

POLITICS: Big Tech’s big greed gave China keys to US defense systems – U-S-NEWS.COM

It’s a national betrayal: Microsoft, actively exploiting loopholes in federal guidance, has effectively handed Xi Jinping the keys to sensitive US defense systems — by using cheap Chinese labor to maintain them. In July, for example, ProPublica reported that Microsoft has long employed engineers based in Communist China to maintain and support cloud systems used by the US Department of Defense. Microsoft’s role as a trusted contractor for our fe…

Microsoft failed to disclose use of China-based engineers in U.S. Defense work

by Renee Dudley, with research by Doris Burke | ProPublica Microsoft, as a provider of cloud services to the U.S. government, is required to regularly submit security plans to officials describing how the company will protect federal computer systems. Yet in a 2025 submission to the Defense Department, the tech giant left out key details,Continue reading "Microsoft failed to disclose use of China-based engineers in U.S. Defense work" The post Mi…

Pentagon halts Chinese coders affecting DOD cloud systems

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon has halted a decade-old Microsoft program that has allowed Chinese coders, remotely supervised by U.S. contractors, to work on sensitive Department of Defense cloud systems.