The Pentagon issued a “letter of concern” to Microsoft after the company allowed Chinese nationals to do work for the U.S. Department of Defense.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said this stems from a decade-old Microsoft program, known as “digital escorts.”
“For nearly a decade, Microsoft has used Chinese coders, remotely supervised by U.S. contractors, to support sensitive DoD cloud systems,” he said.
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Hegseth said the program is no longer being used at the Pentagon.
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