The UAE has been trying to recruit Pentagon workers displaced by DOGE to move to Abu Dhabi to work on AI for the UAE's military. A UAE brigadier general met last month with two former staffers of the Defense Digital Service who have worked on US classified projects and tried to recruit them and their entire DDS team to move to Abu Dhabi. The general was apparently given permission by the Pentagon to recruit the members of Defense Digital Service -- who resigned enmasse from their jobs last month due to DOGE --- despite warnings last year from US spy agencies and federal lawmakers that the UAE could share AI tech with China and despite the UAE's disturbing history of recruitment of US workers. Remember Dark Matter when the UAE recruited former NSA operators/analysts to work on cybersecurity jobs only to have them help UAE spy agencies hack other nations, members of the royal family and dissidents and journalists? One of the people from the UAE who assisted with the recruiting of DDS workers has ties to Dark Matter. Here's my story:
https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/uae-recruiting-us-personnel-displaced-by-doge-to-work-on-ai-for-its-military/
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