San Jose man charged with illegally exporting aviation technology to Chinese university
SAN FRANCISCO - A 34-year-old San Jose man has been charged with illegally exporting and smuggling sensitive American aviation technology to a Chinese university, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Jason Green reports for Bay Area News Group. Continue reading original article.
The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
3 June 2022 - According to the complaint, Soong in August 2017 made arrangements to sell an Army flight-control software package to the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics through an intermediary, Beijing Rainbow Technical Development Ltd. The university, however, was on a U.S. Department of Commerce list of entities that are barred from receiving certain technology with commercial and potential military applications. The university was on the list because of its involvement in People’s Republic of China military rocket systems and unmanned air vehicle systems.
“Soong admitted making the export in the name of Beijing Rainbow but for the use of ( Beijing University) but claimed that other customers had legitimately used third-party purchasing systems and he thought this case was no different,” the 19-page complaint states. “He ultimately admitted that making Beijing Rainbow the ultimate purchaser was done to avoid detection that the real purchaser was on the entity list.”
Related: Raytheon beefs-up cyber security capabilities with Websense acquisition, SureView launch
Related: China is trying to steal military space tech. The US is running stings to stop it
Jamie Whitney, Associate Editor
Intelligent Aerospace
