Posted on 05/28/2020 5:34:56 AM PDT by Enlightened1
But but but, it was just so much cheaper to build it in China though.
Just think of the Overhead!
some very smart FReepre wrote a long post on how that’s not NEARLY as easy as it is to the professional worriers here :)
There’s always the assumption that our military isn’t the brightest and would Never consider something like this happening nor prepare for it.
China is a real concern.
Being fatalist like I see around here is also
Sandia is not a Honeywell operation. It is a federally funded research and development center. It is owned by the Federal Government. It is operated for the government under what is called a Management and Operating Contract held by Honeywell, but that is a vehicle for paying employees on other then government civil service wages. It is an arrangement dating back to the Manhattan Project.
This is important because Sandia does some of the most sensitive work that the government does and as an advanced engineering science laboratory is probably the premier place for any such investigations to be done.
“Transformers do not contain software-based control systems and are passive devices, though recent equipment may contain diagnostic electronics, the WSJ said...Cai told the newspaper that even if someone accessed the diagnostic data, it was of no import.”
Well, we’ll find out - it’s not hard to slip in a few circuits in a device that weighs over 200 tons. I suspect they plan to thoroughly examine the device, see what type of communications gear it has, figure out how to neutralize it, and then do the same for the rest of our power grid - virtually all supplied by China now (thank you again, American labor unions).
Last paragraph says it all.
Beware of Decepticons.
“...A report in Politico said Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette had recently played down concerns from industry that new clean energy projects could be inconvenienced by the order.
The language in the order is said to be so all-encompassing and covering nearly 20 types of gear that developers fear they may have to delay projects, anticipating that components ordered from abroad could be banned....”
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Hmmmmm.. looks like the WSJ is doing a bit of subtle interference running for the Chicoms.
Hey, They said Los Alamos not Sandia.
Thanks for posting. CHYna is azzhole.
Yet genuine CHICOM CRAP (TM) is pervasive in our supply chain. Our hardware stores are replete with genuine CHICOM crap. It isn't counterfeit. It's real. It's CHICOM produced and it is utter rubbish.
Oh, and did anyone mention that we got this way because McKinsey advised all out fortune 500 companies to get their cost advantages by relying on genuine certifiede CHICOM CRAP (TM).
They needed a paperweight for the affordable care act while no one was still not reading it?
There are three FFRDC national labs in the nuke weps business. Los Alamos, Livermore and Sandia.
Every vulnerable/potentially vulnerable device was identified and remediated where possible, removed and replaced where not. It was a huge project that took approximately 18 months to complete.
The US Government is very active in getting the financial services industry shored up against Chinese (and Russian, Iranian, etc..) state sponsored hacking. The backdoors that Chinese made compute components contain are well known, the effort to shore up and protect financial services is huge, I cannot imagine the urgency that must be felt in the power and other utility industries right now.
We have to kick China all the way out of our Country. Their state sponsored students (spies) and everything made in China has to go. They're doing their level best to take us down from within and we must not let them win.
Unions have little to do with it. China will match the price at any level to get the business. They have 100% backing of CPC.
There’s probably more than meets the eye.
“Unions have little to do with it. China will match the price at any level to get the business.”
Well, they certainly MADE IT EASY for China to take over manufacturing, the way they treated their employers. We never needed their crap and I have to admit, I was DAMN HAPPY to see those assholes put out of work while our manufacturing was sent to China and Mexico.
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