{"id":868261,"date":"2021-10-11T15:29:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T19:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=868261"},"modified":"2021-10-11T15:29:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T19:29:04","slug":"pentagons-first-software-chief-resigns-says-u-s-has-already-lost-to-china-on-cyber-its-already-a-done-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagons-first-software-chief-resigns-says-u-s-has-already-lost-to-china-on-cyber-its-already-a-done-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon\u2019s First Software Chief Resigns, Says U.S. Has Already Lost To China On Cyber: \u2018It\u2019s Already A Done Deal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpentagons-first-software-chief-resigns-says-u-s-has-already-lost-to-china-on-cyber-its-already-a-done-deal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=868261&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Department-of-Defense.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The software chief at the Pentagon, Nicolas Chaillan, believes the United States will have \u201cno competing chance against China\u201d in cyber within the next two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Chaillan, 37, resigned his post as the first chief software officer at the Pentagon last week over the slow pace of the United States\u2019 cyber and tech development which is putting the nation at risk of falling behind China. In Chaillan\u2019s view, the U.S. has already lost the battle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years. Right now, it\u2019s already a done deal; it is already over in my opinion,\u201d Chaillan told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/f939db9a-40af-4bd1-b67d-10492535f8e0\">Financial Times<\/a> in his first media interview since resigning his post. There is \u201cgood reason to be angry,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Chaillan blamed misallocation of military resources, overregulation, and the failure of U.S. tech companies to aid the federal government in tech research for the United States\u2019 poor position on tech and cyber. The Times reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><em>\u201cWhether it takes a war or not is kind of anecdotal,\u201d he said, arguing China was set to dominate the future of the world, controlling everything from media narratives to geopolitics. He added US cyber defences in some government departments were at \u201ckindergarten level\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He also blamed the reluctance of Google to work with the US defence department on AI, and extensive debates over AI ethics for slowing the US down. By contrast, he said Chinese companies are obliged to work with Beijing, and were making \u201cmassive investment\u201d into AI without regard to ethics.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The former software chief explained his resignation in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/time-say-goodbye-nicolas-m-chaillan\/?trackingId=MZsYNcB7KQFljO4aqqjTcg%3D%3D\">open letter<\/a> posted to LinkedIn on September 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realize more clearly than ever before that, in 20 years from now, our children, both in the United States and our Allies\u2019, will have no chance competing in a world where China has the drastic advantage of population over the US. If the US can\u2019t match the booming, hardworking population in China, then we have to win by being smarter, more efficient, and forward-leaning through agility, rapid prototyping and innovation. We have to be ahead and lead. We can\u2019t afford to be behind,\u201d Chaillan wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to state that he was \u201cunderutilized and poorly leveraged\u201d during his time in the Pentagon. He ripped Department of Defense (DOD) leadership for poorly staffing IT departments with the DOD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told my leadership that I could have fixed Enterprise IT in 6 months if empowered. Yet with my 22 years of expertise running IT innovation, I was underutilized and poorly leveraged by the DOD, as most of my time was wasted trying to convince folks to engage with me and consider more relevant and efficient solutions, while I watched as they continued to deliver capabilities that do not meet the basic needs of our warfighters,\u201d Chaillan wrote. \u201cThe DoD should stop pretending they want industry folks to come and help if they are not going to let them do the work. While we wasted time in bureaucracy, our adversaries moved further ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI, as have many of us, have been trying for 3 years now to convince various teams to partner and merge work across the Department. We don\u2019t need different stacks just for the sake of egos. There are 100,000 software developers in the DoD,\u201d he later added. \u201cWe are the largest software organization on the planet, and we have almost no shared repositories and little to no collaboration across DoD Services. We need diversity of options if there are tangible benefits to duplicating work. Not because of silos created purposefully to allow senior officials to satisfy their thirst for power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The software chief at the Pentagon, Nicolas Chaillan, believes the United States will have \u201cno competing chance against China\u201d in cyber within the next two decades.Chaillan, 37, resigned his post &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}