Nicolas Chaillan, former senior cybersecurity official at the Pentagon, in his first interview after leaving said "..we have no competing fighting chance against China in fifteen to twenty years. Right now, it's already a done deal; it is already over in my opinion."
He continued later on the subject, stating that the AI capabilities and cyber defenses of select government departments were at "kindergarten level," when compared to China.
Chaillan, in his final departing post on LinkedIn, said that the Pentagon's reluctance to make cybersecurity and AI a priority did play a part in his resignation.
His grief with the US security department is not one he holds alone. A number of US departments have been subject to hacking attempts and ransomware attacks in recent years, causing many to loose faith in our countries cyber defense.