Microsoft letting Chinese engineers work on Pentagon cloud programs sparks probe

Defense Minister Beit Higseth said that the Pentagon was “discussing” the “cloud computing program managed by Microsoft using foreign workers from China, which was criticized this week because of the lack of sufficient guarantees, which may provide easy access to classified defense data and systems.

The PROPUBLICA report on Tuesday accused Microsoft of allowing engineers in China of helping the Pentagon Cloud systems With insufficient handrails in an attempt to expand its government contracting business.

In response, Senator Tom Couton, R-RK. activity. Republican Senator requested answers to his questions by the end of the month.

“In light of modern reports and the approval of Microsoft using engineers in China to maintain DOD systems, I asked the Minister of Defense to consider the matter,” Cotton said in a post on X sharing his message to Higseth. “We must keep all threats within the army’s supply chain.”

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A few hours after Cotton’s X Post, Higseth replied, “A spot on Senator.”

“I agree,” Higseth said as his X as he responds to cotton. “Our team is already looking into this as quickly as possible. Foreign engineers – from any country, including China, of course, are not allowed to reach or reach DOD systems.”

The PROPUBLICA report for current and former employees and government contractors who worked on a cloud computing program published by Microsoft in 2016, which included a “digital escort” framework. The program, which aims to meet federal contract regulations, used a system of “digital escort” escort for global cyber security officials, such as those stationed in China, which aims to create a security store so that they can work on agency computing systems. DOD instructions require that people who deal with sensitive data are American or permanent residents.

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According to the sources that spoke to ProPublica, including some who have an intimate knowledge of the employment process for a “digital accompaniment” of $ 18 per hour, technology staff who are appointed to do the supervision lacks sufficient technical experience to prevent the Chinese employee from penetrating the system or converting the information classified into CCP.

The sources pointed out that the escorts often for former military personnel have been appointed because of their security permits more than their technical capabilities and often lack the skills necessary to evaluate the code used by the engineers who were supervising it.

In China, people are subject to sweeping government cooperation laws with data collection efforts.

Defense Minister Beit Higseth announced on Friday that the Pentagon was “looking at” fears that run Microsoft a program working on defense systems classified with the help of Chinese computer engineers. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft; Philip Fong/AFP via Getty Images; Omar Havana/Getty Images)

Michael Lucy said: “If it turns out that the PROPUBLICA report is correct, Microsoft has created a national embarrassment that displays soldiers, sailors, pilots and marine pedestrians. The presidents must roll, and officials should go to prison and congress must conduct extensive investigations to detect the full range of the potential compromise solution,” said Michael Lucy. Luci is the CEO and founder of State Armor Action, a conservative group that has a mission to develop and enact solutions at the state level for global security threats.

Lucy added: “

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A Microsoft spokesman He defended the company’s “digital escort” model on Tuesday, saying that all employees and contractors who have a distinguished access must pass federal rear tests.

“For some technical requests, Microsoft shares our team of international topics experts to provide support through the accredited American employees, in line with the requirements and operations of the US government,” added a spokesman for some technical requests, Microsoft participates our team of international topics experts to provide support through accredited American employees, in line with the requirements and operations of the US government. ” “In these cases, global support staff does not have direct access to customer or customer systems.”

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The General Information Office of the Defense Systems Agency (DISA) was not at first unable to the program when the ProPublica began to ask questions about this topic, but he is ultimately followed to indicate that “digital escorts” is used “in specific environments that are not classified” in the Ministry of Defense to “diagnose advanced problems and solve experts in the industry.”

Meanwhile, on Friday, Microsoft’s chief communications employee, Frank Show, said it was in response to recent concerns about the program, Microsoft chooses to make some changes.

“In response to the concerns that were raised earlier this week about foreign engineers who underwent the United States, Microsoft has changed our support for US government agents to ensure that Chinese -based engineering teams are not available for the cloud of the government of the Ministry of Defense and Related Services,” she said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “We are still committed to providing the most possible safety services to the American government, including working with our national security partners to assess and control our safety protocols as needed.”