U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Trump administration has brought to an end Microsoft’s employment of Chinese nationals to write code for sensitive Pentagon cloud systems.
Hegseth said in a video address posted on X that “the use of Chinese nationals to serve the Department of Defense’s cloud environment—it’s over.”
Hegseth gave his initial findings after Microsoft was issued a formal complaint for a “breach of trust” over its Obama-Biden era program, called “digital escorts,” that had been running for almost a decade.
“We expect vendors dealing with the Department of Defense to put U.S. national security ahead of profit maximalization,” Hegseth said….
Hegseth Announces Chinese Nationals No Longer Service Pentagon’s Cloud Systems
