{"id":948787,"date":"2025-07-22T12:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=948787"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:39:06","slug":"microsoft-bans-china-based-engineers-from-all-pentagon-cloud-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/22\/microsoft-bans-china-based-engineers-from-all-pentagon-cloud-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft bans China-based engineers from all Pentagon cloud contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft on Friday said it will stop using China-based engineers to provide technical assistance to the US military after a report in investigative journalism outlet ProPublica sparked questions from a US senator and prompted defense secretary Pete Hegseth to order a two-week review of Pentagon cloud deals.<\/p>\n<p>The report detailed Microsoft&#8217;s use of Chinese engineers to work on US military cloud computing systems under the supervision of US &#8220;digital escorts&#8221; hired through subcontractors who have security clearances but often lacked the technical skills to assess whether the work of the Chinese engineers posed a cybersecurity threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft on Friday said it will stop using China-based engineers to provide technical assistance to the US military after a report in investigative journalism outlet ProPublica sparked questions from a US senator and prompted defense secretary Pete Hegseth to order a two-week review of Pentagon cloud deals. The report detailed Microsoft&#8217;s use of Chinese engineers to work on US military cloud computing systems under the supervision of US &#8220;digital escorts&#8221; hired through subcontractors who have security clearances but often lacked the technical skills to assess whether the work of the Chinese engineers posed a cybersecurity threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}