Dual American-Chinese citizens are guilty of stealing mysteries to detect mysteries

A dual American-Chinese citizen was earlier served as an engineer at a Southern California company, stealing American trade mystery for the next generation national security technology.

However, San Jose’s 59 -year -old Chenguang Gong blamed for a count of the theft of trade mysteries, according to the Department of Justice, is free on a $ 1.75 million bond.

US District Judge John F. Walter sentenced on 29 September. The prosecutors said that Gong faces a maximum fine of 10 -year jail.

According to his petition agreement, Gong transferred more than 3,600 files from the Los Angeles-region Research and Development Company, where he worked in individual storage equipment during his brief tenure with the company last year.

Federal prosecutors stated that gong-transferred files include the launch of nuclear missile launch and blueprints for sophisticated infrared sensors designed for use in space-based systems to track ballistic and hypersonic missiles. Other files stated that American military aircraft included blueprints for sensors designed to enable American military aircraft to take counterous aircraft, including the upcoming, heat -felled missiles and jammed the infrared tracking capacity of missiles.

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“These files describe the methods, design, techniques, procedures, specifications, testing and construction of these techniques and will be economically extremely harmful when obtained by the victim company contestants, and will be dangerous for American national security when received by international actors,” the complaint says.

According to the petition agreement, the “intended economic loss” from Gong’s criminal conduct is more than $ 3.5 million.

The court documents noted that most of the company -based company -based work has been funded through contracts with the US Department of Defense and other US government contractors.

Gong was hired in January 2023 as an application-specific integrated circuit design manager responsible for the design, development and verification of its infrared sensors by the company. From about 30 March to 26 April, 2023 that year from its end, Gong allegedly transferred thousands of files from his work laptop to three personal storage devices. Prosecutors said that one of the main contestants of the company included more than 1,800 files after accepting the job.

Prosecutors said that several files include ownership and business information related to the development and design of a readout integrated circuit in gong transfer that allows space-based systems to detect missile launch and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles and a readout tracks a reedout that tracks the aircraft that the aircraft is in a low-threatening circuit. Allows to track.

Gong also transferred files with trade secrets related to the development of the “next generation” sensor, which are capable of detecting low-observable goals while demonstrating increased survival in space, as well as blueprints for mechanical assemblies used to cool the sensors of the home and cryogenic. This information was one of the company’s most important trade mysteries and according to DOJ, cost crores of dollars.

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Many of the files warned in bold letters that the information was owned, exported and “only for official use”.

The FBI carried out a search warrant at Gong’s temporary residence in California on 8 May 2023, and also discovered his vehicle and his person. Law enforcement recovered several digital devices related to Gong, some of which included the company’s justification files. The complaint stated that the FBI, however, did not detect two hard drives, used to exfilt the company’s trade secret and ownership information, “and till date the hideouts of those drives are unknown.”

The prosecutors said that Gong repeatedly refused to process those hard drives or knew where he was located in an interview with FBI in May 2023. Gong was arrested on 7 February 2024 on federal charges, but was later released on Bond.

Court documents say Gong first entered the United States in or around 1993 and became an American citizen in 2011. He was initially stated that he earned a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Cla with the University and, according to the complaint, completed some PhD work at Stanford University.

Law enforcement also stated that Gong applied to the “talent programs” administered by the People’s Republic of China, while he was working in several major technology companies in the US between 2014 and 2022.

Prosecutors said that in 2014, Gong, who was employed in a US Information Technology Company in Dallas, sent a trade proposal for a contact at a high -tech research institute in China, focused on both military and civil products. In the proposal, Gong described the plan to produce high-performance analog-to-digital converters produced by his employer.

At another “Talent Program” application from September 2020, prosecutors said, Gong proposed to develop a “low light/night vision” image sensor for use in military night vision goggles and civil applications. Gong’s proposal included a video presentation which included a model number of a sensor developed by an international defense, aerospace and security company, where Gong worked from 2015 to 2019.

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Officials said Gong traveled to China several times to search for “talent program” funding to develop refined analog-to-digital converters. The Department of Justice cited an email of 2019 translated from Chinese in which Gong commented that he traveled to China to participate in talent programs and took “a risk” because he worked for “an American military industry company” and thought that he could “do something” to contribute to China’s “high -end military integrated circuits”.