Teecht. Dod Officials: Chinese Actions Threaten U.S. Technological, Industrial Base

By Lisa Ferdinando, DoD News, Defense Media Activity

WASHINGTON -- Defense Department officials warned lawmakers today almost the unprecedented threats DoD is facing to its technological in addition to industrial base, equally China in addition to other nations actively assay out advanced engineering in addition to intellectual property.

"We are hither to underscore the urgency with which all of us must focus our actions to keep our technological in addition to armed forces dominance," Michael D. Griffin, undersecretary of defense forcefulness for query in addition to engineering, told the House Armed Services Committee’s armed forces personnel subcommittee.

Chinese actions include theft of engineering in addition to intellectual holding through the exfiltration of the piece of work of others, Griffin said inward a hearing on armed forces engineering transfer.

“The breadth in addition to depth of Chinese malfeasance with regard non solely to our technology, only too to our larger economic scheme in addition to our nation, is pregnant in addition to intentional,” he said.

Griffin appeared earlier the commission with Kari A. Bingen, deputy undersecretary of defense forcefulness for intelligence; Eric Chewning, deputy assistant secretarial assistant of defense forcefulness for manufacturing in addition to industrial base of operations policy; in addition to Anthony M. Schinella, national word officeholder for armed forces issues at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Maintaining Global Military Advantage

The U.S. remains the world’s pre-eminent armed forces power, Griffin in addition to the other witnesses said inward a articulation written statement.

“However, inward guild to boot the bucket on to keep this payoff inward an surround of vigorous globe competition, nosotros must stay vigilant in addition to employ whole-of-government approaches to the occupation ready at hand,” they said.

To exercise that, they explained, the Defense Department non solely must accommodate to the environment, only too must stay the drivers of global technological advances.

“We must larn inside the conclusion loops of our adversaries,” they said. “We must growth the speed in addition to efficiency at which nosotros educate, invent, adapt, epitome in addition to demonstrate to response to electrical flow in addition to hereafter threats to ensure in addition to save our authorisation inward the field.”

China Seeks Advanced U.S. Technologies

The threats are putting at adventure the capabilities critical to the U.S. maintaining its armed forces advantage, Bingen said.

“China, inward particular, has made it a national finish to larn unusual technologies to advance its economic scheme in addition to to modernize its military,” she said. “It is comprehensively targeting advanced U.S. technologies in addition to the people, the information, businesses in addition to query institutions that underpin them.”

China, she said, is using a diverseness of methods to pocket information from the U.S. in addition to to exploit in addition to circumvent processes. The Defense Department is making pregnant changes inward its approach to industrial in addition to information security, equally good equally to counterintelligence, she pointed out.

‘Multifaceted Threat’ to United States

China has acquired proprietary engineering in addition to early on phase ideas through cyber-enabled means, Schinella said. Some actors run largely legitimate legal transfers in addition to relationships to gain access to query fields, experts in addition to cardinal enabling industrial processes that could, over time, erode America's long-term competitive advantages, he explained.

China in addition to Russian Federation are with the nations that recognize that investing inward in addition to acquiring engineering is essential to achieving their strategic goals, Schinella said.

“They desire to prepare weapons systems that strike farther, faster, harder in addition to to a greater extent than exactly equally a agency to erode the traditional pillars of U.S. armed forces strength in addition to challenge the U.S. inward all warfare domains,” he said.

The threat from China, Chewning pointed out, has the potential for both long- in addition to short-term impacts.

“Chinese industrial policies of economical aggression, such equally investment-driven engineering transfer in addition to illegal intellectual holding theft, pose a multifaceted threat to our entire national safety excogitation base,” he said.