Hegseth Demands Review After Microsoft Bars Chinese Engineers from US Military Work

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00:00Earlier this week, we were alerted to a potential vulnerability in our DoD computer systems,

00:06and we've been checking into it ever since.

00:07It turns out that some tech companies have been using cheap Chinese labor to assist with

00:14DoD cloud services.

00:16This is obviously unacceptable, especially in today's digital threat environment.

00:21Now this was a legacy system created over a decade ago during the Obama administration.

00:27But we have to ensure the digital systems that we use here at the Defense Department are ironclad and impenetrable.

00:34And that's why today I'm announcing that China will no longer have any involvement whatsoever

00:40in our cloud services effective immediately.

00:44And at my direction, the department will also initiate as fast as we can a two-week review

00:48or faster to make sure that what we uncovered isn't happening anywhere else across the DoD.

00:55We will continue to monitor and counter all threats to our military infrastructure and online networks.

01:01And I want to thank all those Americans out there in the media and elsewhere who raised this issue to our attention

01:06so we could address it.

01:08And that's why we're talking to you today.

01:10As the President would say, thank you for your attention to this matter, and God bless our warfighters.

01:15So I'm going to sign that memo right now, initiating that review.