United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to Microsoft: You cannot use Chinese coders to …
United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has reportedly asked Microsoft to review involvement of Chinese coders in managing cloud services for the Pentagon and US military. According to a report by TechCrunch, Hegseth has also directed the Department of Defense to conduct a separate investigation into the digital escort program and the role of Chinese Microsoft employees in it. In a declaration, Hegseth said “For nearly a decade, Microsoft has used Chinese coders, remotely supervised by US contractors to support sensitive Department of Defense cloud systems – and if you’re thinking America First and common sense, this doesn’t pass either of those tests”.
