The U.S. Department of Defense is starting a secure 5G microelectronics initiative after a declassified Inspector General report blamed China for supply chain cyber-espionage.
The day after the Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a heavily redacted report identifying numerous cybersecurity vulnerabilities associated with U.S. military purchases of ‘Commercial Off-the-Shelf Items’ (COTS) that contain Chinese electronics, Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (R&E) Michael Griffin told Space and Missile Defense Symposium, “What I want to bet on is the ability of the United States and our Western allies to out-innovate adversaries.”
