The US has long since had a practice of outsourcing labor many times over in pursuit of the lowest labor costs and maximum profit.

Getting your girdle in a twist because you found out the guy on Fiverr debugging your middleware has non-White ancestors maybe misses the root of the problem.

I’m agreeing with Pete Hegseth? WTF is happening right now?

I mean, listen to your gut instincts, which is that you're being foolish because he is a fool.

If your system demands trust, it's a bad system. If your system has a written set of rules that don't actually cover your requirements, it's a bad system. If the "tests" you imagine post-hoc aren't part of the system, you're just opportunistically trying to shift the blame.

You made a deal, set the parameters, and what... Expected the for profit company to ignore their fiduciary duty to shareholders to maximize profit? What is this, your first fucking day of capitalism, Pete?

His response to this is engineered to shift blame, and he's coming out swinging because ultimately he is to blame. It's barely more than a political catchphrase. He literally invoked "America First".

I work for one of the world's largest proprietary software companies.

100% agree with you

Countries should fund open source OS, browser, mobile OS. It is in their best interest.

This is definitely hindsight is always 20/20 sort of thinking but governments should have long ago realized that trusting the likes of Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. would leave them reliant on their innovations and also subject to their whims, mistakes, and more.

Well, I would suppose that a government, if it really want, have more than one way to solve this problem, it is not a small business that can't fight back. And it can fight back in more ways than just "I will switch vendor"

Basically I’m saying World governments all need their own internal OS developed and maintained internally by an official subdivision of said governments, and maybe even a separate branch developing internally utilized hardware.

Yes, but it would be a nightmare to communicate even with your allies if everyone has a different OS running on differen hardware since at some point you will need to communicate with someone.

in which U.S. personnel with security clearances supervise foreign engineers, including those in China.

From the security clearance perspective there really isn't any difference between China based engineers, Chinese spies, and Joe America accessing classified code without being cleared by the DoD.

If an individual did this "escort" scheme, they would be arrested.

I have been held at gunpoint by a giggling marine because I was escorted through a door I shouldn’t have been.

I had the necessary clearance and access but I wasn’t read in or scheduled and despite it not being my fault I was still held until I was cleared to not be.

This seems like a terrible use, since these plants work by mixing fresh water with seawater (or in this case the brine leftover from desalination). I guess the catch is they can use treated wastewater instead of potable water.

This method gains very little net energy compared to other renewables.

“While energy is released when the salt water is mixed with fresh water, a lot of energy is lost in pumping the two streams into the power plant and from the frictional loss across the membranes. This means that the net energy that can be gained is small,” said Kentish.