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San Jose man faces upto 30 yrs in prison for smuggling US aviation tech from NASA to China

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A man from San Jose, California, has been charged with smuggling and violating export control laws after allegedly sending sensitive aeronautics software to a public university in Beijing.

Jonathan Yet Wing Soong, 34, worked as a program administrator for the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) between April 2016 and September 2020. USRA is contracted by NASA to “distribute domestically and internationally sensitive aeronautics-related software developed through the Army’s Software Transfer Agreement (STA) program,” according to a news release published by the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday.

As a program administrator, Soong had primary access to sensitive data. He generated software licenses and physically exported software, among other tasks.

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