A joint task force is charging two men for their roles in separate schemes to steal and reproduce 3D modeling and autonomous vehicle technology for communist China.
The two cases were announced with three others on May 16, as part of a tranche of prosecutions aimed at squashing crimes related to export violations, smuggling, and trade secret theft.
Each of the cases was brought forward by the Disruptive Technology Strike Force, a joint program led by the Commerce and Justice Departments and intended to counter efforts by hostile nations to illicitly acquire sensitive U.S. technologies.
“Protecting sensitive American technology like source code for ‘smart’ automotive manufacturing equipment or items used to develop quantum cryptography from being illegally acquired by our adversaries is why we stood up the Disruptive Technology Strike Force,” said Commerce Department Assistant Secretary Matthew Axelrod in a statement….