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The U.S. defense intelligence chief warned Tuesday that America's technological edge over China is at risk because of cybertheft. Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, told a congressional hearing the U.S. retains technological superiority. But he said China had stolen "a lot" of intellectual property from U.S. defense contractors and that effort continues.
He's declined to say publicly whether that has affected U.S. defense capabilities. "I do not believe we are at this point losing our technological edge, but it is at risk based on some of their cyber activities," Stewart told a House Armed Services Committee hearing on worldwide threats.
Stewart's comments underscored the strains between the U.S. and China over cyberespionage. Last May, U.S. authorities indicted five Chinese military officials over allegations they targeted big-name American makers of nuclear and solar technology. China denied the allegations.
http://phys.org/news/2015-02-intel-chief-tech-threatened-china.html
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday February 04 2015, @08:02PM
Don't forget how to properly differentiate:
- Worrisome Threat To Our Technological Edge: the Chinese/Indians reached in and took the secret sauce
- Shortage Of Qualified Engineers: we brought in people from China/India on short-term visas, taught them the secret sauce recipe, and forced them to return home.
- US Companies Must Remain Competitive: we outsourced the secret sauce to China/India to boost our quarterly results.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Gaaark on Wednesday February 04 2015, @08:39PM
Wow... could not have said it better. You get my mod points that i don't have!
The search for that last almighty dollar has really put a grasping fist up the U.S. ass.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 04 2015, @09:55PM
All that doesn't really apply to this story because he's talking about defense contractors. They don't outsource to India or China and they don't give security clearances to people who don't at least have a green card (i.e. permanent residency).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 05 2015, @12:17AM
At least this is what you (and, more important, the legislative branch approving the budget) is left to believe.
(Score: 3, Informative) by anubi on Thursday February 05 2015, @07:03AM
A "cleared" executive gives bonuses to "cleared" managers who explain to cheaper foreign labor how to build pieces of a classified device; individual parts of it do not constitute a classified device.
Then they have "cleared" people here, who often have no idea of what is in the boxes the managers ordered, assemble them to spec.
Then *that* is offered to the government as the deliverable.
The manager is then free to downsize the department at the close of contract to minimize hours charged. Nothing more than the ability to read English is needed to assemble the boxes anyway, so nothing much is lost.
Managers get their pick of people these days, as the economy is not all that good and there are loads of engineers still being graduated from schools with significant student debt, so these guys will do damned near anything to get those debt collectors off their back.
A lot of the older seasoned engineers simply won't accept the offerings and competition for putting stuff together when they used to get premium pay for designing the stuff.
Engineers here who specialize in the picky art of design find themselves either working for themselves or seeing if WalMart needs any greeters... There appears to be a substantial glut of analog circuit design engineers out there as seen from the lack of interest I have been seeing.
I do not think this will change much until China demonstrably exceeds us in technical acumen, have plans for world domination, and do not see much use for nor respect the existing "ownership" class.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday February 04 2015, @10:11PM
Look at all the bad things that are happening . . . Now, can we please have more money. It will be specifically to combat XYZ bad things that are happening.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Pav on Thursday February 05 2015, @02:35AM
Like spying on Germany [popularsocialscience.com], which it seems are more worthwhile to spy on than China and Russia anyway - I wonder why.
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Thursday February 05 2015, @04:54PM
Mein President we are losing ze Bratwurst gap!
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