Author: Philip Lenczyki
According to the Daily Caller Authoration Action (NDAA), the amendment adopted to the Act on the Defense of National Defense in 2026 would require the Defense Department (DOD) to check American defense contractors for Chinese intelligence ties, in accordance with a copy only obtained by the Daily Caller News News Foundation.
Senator Joni Ernst introduced by Iowa Republican, assessment of amendments of foreign performers gives DOD YEAR In order to formalize your policy verification for defensive contractors, while forcing the Secretary of Defense to verify performers to “membership, belonging or participation” in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence AND intelligence A service called the United Front (UFWD) work department. In addition, the lack of compliance with the date of the amendment automatically causes the cancellation of “all contracts and subcontractors with contractors and subcontractors, which are not assessed for the risk related to foreign property, control or influence.”
Ernst sent Letter to the Secretary of Defense Pete HegeSth in March 2025. Calling DOP to kill contracts with the American defense contractor S&L Aerospace Metals LLC, citing the February investigation of DCNF revealing Chinese government and state media reports that identified the owner of the company as an official in many UFWD agencies.
“It is unforgivable that Biden administration has not taken common steps to protect the national security of America from espionage,” said Ernst DCNF. “We know that China and other foreign opponents work hard to steal our technology. The last thing we must do is to leave a backdoor for them.”
“By implementing the exact process of verifying all contractors, we can guarantee that America will be safer, stronger and safer, remaining a world leader in the field of innovation,” said Ernst.
NDAA in 2026, which defines the annual DUD budget, fainted from the commission and is now heading to the Senate floor for final transition.
In February, the DCNF report found that New Yorkbased on S&L MA won About $ 60 million in defense contracts and subcontracting for a fighter, attack helicopter and parts of rocket launchers. However, the general director of S&L, Jerry Wang, was identified as the “director” of many UFWD agencies by Chinese government registers and state reports.
UFWD operations are a “mixture of commitment, impact on intelligence activities and operations, which [CCP] is used to shape your political environment, including impact on the policy of other countries towards [People’s Republic of China] and access advanced foreign technology “, According to to the House selection committee for CCP.
The spokesman Wang, Mark Herr, denied that “he acted in any way, which is disloyal”, and Wang’s lawyer also insisted that his client had no connections with foreign political entities after DCNF asked about 13 photos of Wang on Chinese government functions along with high UFWD leaders and party officials, including XI. However, asked if Wang denied in these photos, Wanga’s lawyer replied: “No.”
“Jerry Wang is a loyal American citizen who proudly helped to maintain a strong national defense of America for 25 years and all suggestions that he is beyond false, bad and defamatory,” said Herr for DCNF.
Ernst’s amendment can be successful when other attempts to protect the DOD verification for defense contractors have not disappointed.
In June, the House selection committee for CCP quoted Investigation in February S&L DCNF in a letter sent HegeSeth, calling for DOP to the full implementation of the Federal Defense Supplement (DFARS) supplement, ordered by Section 847 NDAA in 2020, which requires the addition of a thorough review of American defense contractors and subcontractors in order to determine “real people or entities that ultimately have or control the company.” According to to the Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA).
However, the implementation of DFARS has been delayed for almost five years, leaving the American industrial base “susceptible to infiltration and use,” said the House selection committee regarding the CCP letter.
Unclassified document on the implementation of DFARS produced by DCS – which is progressing 95% of the basic investigations of the federal government – states that the agency is currently able to perform only about 30% of the required reviews, despite the DCS budget of $ 3 billion. This document, which was presented to the Congress Committees and employees at the beginning of this year, also cites the investigation in February S&L DCNF as a “test matter”, said DCSa spokesman in June DCNF.
However, even the full implementation of DFAR would probably not identify violations of defense performers, because his process is based on tutorials, LJ EADS, a former analyst of the US air force analyst, said DCNF.
On the other hand, the amendment of NDAA Ernst in 2026 can connect this gap, said EADS because it includes the enforcement mechanism that forces DUP to actively verify defense contractors or cancel their contracts.
“Before this amendment, there was no clear path for assessing or conducting due diligence in the field of foreign property, control and influence -dds largely consisted in reporting your own,” said EADS. “[Ernst’s amendment] It is a requirement for the plan to assess and alleviate the risk of the contractor of the DUP related to foreign property, control and influence. “
“To sum up, this is a great step in the right direction to plan the CCP limitation path and other opponents from injection into the chains of unnoticed supply supply, Eads continued. “For the first time, contractors associated with UFWD cannot hide behind reporting to themselves.”
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Philip Lenczyk is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “XI Jinping” by President Rwanda Paul Kagame CCNC2.0.
