Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) has requested details from the Pentagon regarding the extent of information shared with Chinese engineers involved in a Microsoft cloud services contract.
Cotton, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dated July 24 requesting findings from an internal two-week review announced by the Pentagon chief on July 18.
Hegseth ordered the review after finding out that some technology companies had been using “cheap Chinese labor” to assist with the Pentagon’s cloud services, according to his video message posted on X. He added that the vulnerability was found on a “legacy system created over a decade ago during the Obama administration.”…
Lawmaker Questions Pentagon Over Chinese Engineers Tied to Microsoft Contract
