Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is asking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for information on Microsoft’s use of Chinese engineers to maintain Pentagon cloud computing systems, warning that the practice may expose “our nation’s most sensitive data to a foreign adversary.”
“In light of recent and concerning reports about Microsoft using engineers in China to maintain DoD systems, I’ve asked @SecDef to look into the matter,” Cotton said in a Friday X post, sharing a letter he sent to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
“We must guard against all threats within our military’s supply chain,” the senator added.
In his letter, Cotton wrote that his concerns stem from a report that “Microsoft is currently employing engineers in China to maintain Department of Defense systems.”
Cotton is citing a ProPublica article, titled,
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