Pentagon struggles to balance supply-chain security concerns with commercial innovation push

By Justin Doubleday / May 6, 2019 at 5:00 AM
The Pentagon has moved in recent years to better secure key technologies from potential adversaries like China, but those efforts are increasingly coming into conflict with the Defense Department's attempts to work with commercial businesses. The issue has garnered international media attention as U.S. officials attempt to convince countries around the world that Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei's relationship with the Chinese Communist Party poses too great a risk to allow the company to build the next-generation “5G” wireless network. But...

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