Washington DC, July 19 -- The US Department of Defence (DoD) will be conducting a two-week review of its digital infrastructure after Microsoft announced it would no longer use "China-based engineering teams" to provide technical support for DoD cloud services.

The decision follows an investigative report alleging that Microsoft had been relying on engineers in China to help maintain the Department of Defence's computer systems.

The investigative report, published by ProPublica, revealed that the tech giant had been using Chinese engineers to help maintain the Department's computer systems with minimal oversight from American personnel, potentially exposing some of the nation's most sensitive data to cyberattacks from one of its primary...