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Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work

  • msmash--Slashdot.org
  • published date: 2026-01-02 20:01:00 UTC

President Donald Trump signed into law this month a measure that prohibits anyone based in China and other adversarial countries from accessing the Pentagon's cloud computing systems. From a report: The ban, which is tucked inside the $900 billion defense pol…

The ban, which is tucked inside the $900 billion defense policy law, was enacted in response to a ProPublica investigation this year that exposed how Microsoft used China-based engineers to service t… [+843 chars]