When Optica Chief Executive Officer Elizabeth Rogan traveled to China in November, the prestigious US scientific society she runs promoted the trip internally and on social media. But it omitted a key stop: her visit to Huawei Technologies Co.’s headquarters, according to communications and documents reviewed by Bloomberg News.
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The findings expand on a Bloomberg News report in May that Huawei was secretly sponsoring a research competition run by Optica’s foundation. That arrangement enabled Huawei to fund millions of dollars worth of cutting-edge studies at US universities without their knowledge, including at schools that ban their researchers from taking Huawei money.
“I believe that research that is funded by DARPA and other agencies and patents to which the U.S. government has certain rights have been willfully exported to Huawei and therefore the Chinese government” through the competition, the complaint says, without elaborating on that allegation. Rogan’s visit to Huawei headquarters came just months after the company’s release in August of a new smartphone featuring a 7-nanometer chip whose development US export controls were supposed to foil. In a provocative move, Huawei unveiled the breakthrough while the US official in charge of those controls, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, was visiting China.
The funding arrangement likely didn’t violate Commerce Department regulations blocking technology sharing with Huawei because such rules don’t apply to science that’s meant to be published, which is what the competition solicits, according to export control experts. The top Republican and Democrat on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee wrote in a May 16 letter to Rogan that Optica’s earlier failure to disclose Huawei’s involvement in the competition either showed deep ignorance toward research security or was a “willful strategy to launder funds from Huawei to anonymously bolster the Optica Foundation’s reputation and finances.”
DARPA, a Pentagon arm famous for helping develop the internet and stealth technology, in 2021 launched a program to assess the risk of foreign influence on grant awardees. A spokeswoman said it’s based on both volunteered and public information.Huawei and Optica began building a relationship years before agreeing on plans for Huawei to anonymously sponsor the research competition.
A spokesman for NIST said its scientist “has not received funding from GEMM beyond meeting travel expenses and was unaware of any connection between GEMM and Huawei.” Huawei recommended eight of the 32 listed candidates, according to the document. Several, including a Huawei executive, went on to join the competition’s 10-person selection committee. Huawei’s representation on the panel was ended after Bloomberg’s report revealing the company’s role as the competition’s sole funder.
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