Subj : Microsoft to stop using China-based engineers for US military tec
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Mon Jul 21 2025 13:30:07

Microsoft to stop using China-based engineers for US military tech support

Date:
Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:17:00 +0000

Description:
Chinese engineers are apparently being employed with minimal supervision from 
US personnel.

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engineers have apparently worked on sensitive DoD systems Microsoft has since 
stopped this practice Many in the department are unfamiliar with the system 

Some of the most sensitive data the United States has to offer is currently 
being maintained by engineers from China, often considered, especially in the 
tech field, its biggest adversary. 

A report from ProPublica has claimed Microsoft is using these engineers to 
maintain the Department of Defenses computer systems, with minimal 
supervision by US personnel. 

This arrangement has changed as of now, Microsoft says, as the firm has 
revised its practices to ensure Chinese engineers no longer provide technical 
support for services in an effort to mitigate the risk to national security. 
Digital escorts 

In response to concerns raised earlier this week about US-supervised foreign 
engineers, Microsoft has made changes to our support for US Government 
customers to assure that no China-based engineering teams are providing 
technical assistance for DoD Government cloud and related services, said the 
Microsofts Chief Communications Officer, Frank Shaw, in an X post . 

The workers were supervised by digital escorts, barely-over-minimum wage 
workers who are often less skilled than the engineers they oversee - many are 
former military personnel with very little coding experience. 

One of these escorts told ProPublica ; were trusting that what theyre doing 
isnt malicious, but we really cant tell. 

Whilst this system has been in place for almost ten years, many former 
government officials told the publication that they were unfamiliar with the 
practice. 

'Literally no one seems to know anything about this, so I dont know where to 
go from here, said Deven King, spokesperson for the Defense Information 
Systems Agency. 

The ongoing tech and trade war has seen the two states introduce strict 
regulations and national security policies, restricting access to markets and 
opportunities on both sides. Chinese hackers have even targeted local US 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/microsoft-to-stop-using-china-based-eng
ineers-for-us-military-tech-support


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