Microsoft says it will no longer use engineers in China for Department of Defense work

Following a Pro Publica report that Microsoft was utilizing engineers successful China to assistance support Department of Defense unreality computing systems, the institution said it’s made changes to guarantee this volition nary longer happen.

The existing strategy reportedly relied connected “digital escorts” to supervise the China-based engineers. But according to Pro Publica, those escorts — U.S. citizens with information clearances — sometimes lacked the method expertise to decently show the engineers.

In effect to the report, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wrote connected X, “Foreign engineers — from immoderate country, including of people China — should NEVER beryllium allowed to support oregon entree DoD systems.”

On Friday, Microsoft’s main communications serviceman Frank X. Shaw responded: “In effect to concerns raised earlier this week astir US-supervised overseas engineers, Microsoft has made changes to our enactment for US Government customers to guarantee that nary China-based engineering teams are providing method assistance for DoD Government unreality and related services.”