The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Energy (DOE) are working with Chinese military to fund more than 100 research projects using US-approved Chinese government supercomputers, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has been found.

DCNF compared federally funded research project reports against entities approved by the US Department of Commerce (DOC). The DCNF has identified 102 projects that were primarily carried out through US national laboratories. Authorization China’s Supercomputer Center Beijing, Chansha, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Amazu.

It is unclear which information may be shared with authorized supercomputers, but intelligence analysts and lawmakers say the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is working to weaponize research using dual civilian and military applications. (Related: Exclusive: US defense contractor owners make fighter jets that make missile parts listed as officials at Chinese Intel agents)

“It is unacceptable that federally funded researchers will continue to use blacklisted Chinese supercomputing centers to support China’s military accumulation,” Michigan Republican Rep. John Mourenard told DCNF that he is chairman of the CCP House Selection Committee. “These systems have contributed to China’s high solimisile research, nuclear weapons development, and other strategic capabilities that directly threaten US national security. The use of these centers by American researchers poses a serious risk of US technology transfer and cyber exploitation.”

Additionally, several research projects Included China-based co-authors belonging to others Authorization Research institutes serving the Chinese military, such as universities that are subordinate to China’s Central Military Commission.

A spokesman for Argonne, Los Alamos and Oak Ridge National Laboratories told DCNF that their staff did not use licensed CCP supercomputers. However, when asked directly whether the research project involved a China-based co-author using a licensed Chinese supercomputer, the spokesman did not respond.

Dod and Doe did not respond to multiple requests for comments.

document Authorization China’s supercomputing center is in question regarding “activities that go against the interests of US national security and foreign policy” related to China’s program of mass destruction. Sanctions prohibit items of US origin from being exported to entities listed.

However, former U.S. Air Force intelligence reporting analyst Lj Eads said U.S. export controls have a major loophole that the National Institutes believe is misusing.

“One major loophole is that while US export controls limit direct access, Chinese researchers can leverage US research by having China-based collaborators perform simulations on approved supercomputers,” Eads told DCNF. “This loophole allows DOD and DOE researchers to avoid restrictions by outsource calculations to China, which poses serious national security risks.”

“Armine fusion”

After reviewing the DCNF’s findings, EADS said that the majority of identified research projects relying on approved Chinese supercomputers have both civilian and military applications. Space Weather Modelingaffecting satellite communications and “ballistic missile early warning radar systems”, According to to the US Space Force.

SuperComputers are orders of magnitude faster than traditional computing technologies, and are used to perform complex calculations such as rapid modeling such as advanced ballistic trajectories and nuclear reactions, EADS said.

“The power of these supercomputers is equivalent to using tens of thousands of modern MacBooks at once,” Eads told DCNF.

As a result, US entities using Chinese supercomputers approved for advanced research may be putting American technological assets under the threat of technology transfer through the CCP’s so-called “military fusion” strategy held by the State Department. I warned “We are attempting to exploit the inherent “double use” of technology in both military and civilian applications.

“[CCP supercomputers] Directly link to [People’s Liberation Army]forwards the risk transfer of sensitive US algorithms and models that could significantly improve China’s capabilities in critical areas such as nuclear simulation and high-sonic weapons,” Eads said. (Exclusive: The Chinese Communist Party quietly runs the Shadow Justice System in American cities.)

“There’s no harmless cooperation.”

Since October 2015, DOD has funded at least 25 research projects using licensed CCP supercomputers, according to a DCNF review of the US government website and academic database.

In one example, federal government records show Several Pentagon grants supported an October 2020 report in which a team of Chinese government officials and a US university professor is studying “high entropy alloys.” Aerospace and Advanced nuclear application. The team’s 2020 report thanked the “computer resources provided by the Tianhe-1 Supercomputer at the National Supercomputer Centre in Chansha.” Authorization About activities that violate the use of “National Security or Foreign Policy Interests” and “Nuclear Explosion Activities” five years ago in February 2015.

DOD also funded a September 2024 report conducted by US and China-based university professors and Chinese government officials. concern Hydrogen production. Eads noted that the study could benefit the development of nuclear energy. The 2024 survey report expressed gratitude for “the computing resources provided by Tianhe-1A, the Tianhe II supercomputer.” Authorization According to a 2015 document.

Third Pentagon Funded Report from October 2018 carried out Professors at universities in the US and China, as well as DOD researchers, have investigated the atomic interactions. Eads said it could have double-use applications related to the development of nuclear weapons systems.

The 2018 survey report thanked the “National Supercomputer Centre in Guangzhou.” house The Tianhe-2 supercomputer is licensed, according to the US government. The National Supercomputer Centre in Guangzhou was involved in 68 of 102 research reports identified by DCNF, the majority of approved Chinese supercomputers.

“The advantage of comparing CCPs is monitoring, not science or basic research,” says Jacqueline, a member of the advisory board of nonprofit State Armor. focus He told DCNF that he would compete with the CCP. “The party has wired universities and overseas research institutions to sense and detect cooperation in military or intelligence reports applications. There is no such thing as harmless cooperation on the topic of double use with people exposed to the scope of Chinese surveillance equipment.”

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“loophole”

According to reviews of government websites and academic databases, DOE and US laboratories also support at least 77 research projects using licensed CCP supercomputers.

The Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in Illinois is known for developing the Manhattan Project’s atomic bomb and is involved in at least 29 research projects using a licensed CCP supercomputer.

One of the DOE-funded ANL research projects published in December 2020 title “High memory efficiency and skin resistant MapReduce through MPI for supercomputing systems” and Guangzhou Tianhe-2 supercomputer focused on optimizing the memory storage of supercomputers.

Additionally, researchers from ANL and US universities worked with personnel from China’s National University of Defense Technology (NUDT). Authorization February 2015.

An ANL spokesperson told DCNF in an email that the researcher “does not use a licensed national supercomputing center in China or its associated supercomputers,” telling the federal regulations are “a top priority.”

However, ANL did not answer questions about whether it supported a research project that relied on China-based researchers using a licensed CCP supercomputing centre.

Founded in 1943 to build an atomic bomb, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico was involved in at least 22 research projects using licensed Chinese supercomputers, 15 of which included cooperation with officials from licensed Chinese universities.

Among other examples, in August 2022, LANL announced a DOE-funded research project on spacecraft physics, leveraging simulations from Guangzhou’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer.

The project also included personnel from the Department of Commerce Beihang University. Authorization Under May 2001 former Name: Beijing Aviation University Astronaut. Beihang University is one of China’s so-called “seven sons of national defense” and serves as a “defense science, technology and industrial work unit” following the main driving forces of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which are the main drivers of the CCP’s military civil integration strategy. According to To the House Select Committee on CCP.

A LANL spokesperson told DCNF via email: “LANL researchers are not working on Chinese supercomputers, so they are not violating export controls or sanctions from the Ministry of Commerce.”

However, a LANL spokesperson said certain research projects involving licensed Chinese supercomputers include LANL officials who participated in “scientific interpretations” or “collaborated on basic science.”

CCP Supercomputer, authorized as a LANL “code expert,” which is said to have developed “large-scale open source code” for use by the astrophysics community, was also co-author of the research project “Ensuring that code is functioning properly.”

“It is embarrassing that respected DOE scientists who are fully aware of the important national security role of the sector will remain involved in these approved platforms,” ​​Eads said. “Their actions contradict the very mission they are supposed to support.”

Another Manhattan Project landmark, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), in Tennessee, participated in 26 research projects using similarly approved CCP supercomputers.

In November 2018, ORNL published a DOE-funded research project investigation Production of exotic materials called graphene application In solar cells, it is related, but should not be confused with graphene. The survey admitted that “calculations were performed at the Tianheii supercomputer at the China National Supercomputer Centre in Guangzhou.”

“ORNL does not violate the Department of Commerce rules relating to foreign companies,” an ORNL spokesperson told DCNF in an email. “There were no US researchers working on Chinese supercomputers, and no government resources were used to support Chinese research conducted at Chinese supercomputing centers.”

However, the spokesman acknowledged that Chinese officials involved in the ORNL research project “used ORNL equipment for insensitive open science experiments” and “used Chinese computers to analyze data.”

“Current loopholes in regulations and enforcement have allowed this dangerous practice to last and expose sensitive US research to potential exploitation by Beijing,” Sen. Moolenaar told DCNF. “Congress must act promptly to close these gaps and ensure that taxpayer-funded research will not contribute in any way to strengthen our highest geopolitical adversaries.”

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