The Pentagon issued a formal letter of concern to Microsoft and ordered a third party audit of the digital escort program, which is what allowed engineers based in China to write code for under trained US supervisors to enter into DoD cloud systems. I'm also tasking the Department of Defense experts with a separate investigation of the digital Escort program and the Chinese Microsoft employees that were involved in it. These investigations will help us determine the impact of this digital escort workaround. Did they put anything in the code that we didn't know about? We're going to find out. (00:32–00:44)
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Asserts that the Department of Defense is investigating the digital Escort program and Chinese Microsoft employees.
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