On Sunday, Nicolas Chaillan, 37, told the Financial Times that there is "good reason to be angry" at the US failing to respond to China's cyber threat, even worrying that it puts his children's future at risk.
"We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years. Right now, it's already a done deal; it is already over, in my opinion," Nicolas Chaillan, 37, told the paper.
Chaillan — who was the Pentagon's first chief software officer — said China would control the world's future by handling everything from media narratives to geopolitics.
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Like Beijing, he asserted that the US should have focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cyber skills over traditional military spending like building new fighter jets.
"Whether it takes a war or not is anecdotal," he told the paper of his forecast of China's route to future world dominance.
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He condemned Google for not working on AI with the US Defense Department, while Chinese companies are required to work with Beijing.
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The US is also debating AI ethics while China makes "massive investment" and avoids such concerns, he said.
Some US government cyber-defense systems are so dated, they are simply at "kindergarten level," he asked.
"While we wasted time in bureaucracy, our adversaries moved further ahead," Chaillan wrote in a scathing letter on LinkedIn last month when first announcing his departure.
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"At this point, I am just tired of continuously chasing support and money to do my job," he said of the pioneering Pentagon job that was "probably the most challenging and infuriating of my entire career."
Chaillan told the Financial Times that he intends to show Congress the Chinese cyber threat to US supremacy in the coming weeks, including in classified briefings.
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A spokesperson for the Department of the Air Force told the Financial Times that Frank Kendall, secretary of the Air Force, had discussed Chaillan's recommendations with him and praised him for his offerings.
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It comes as a new survey shows that about 9 in 10 Americans are at least somewhat concerned about hacking, while nearly two-thirds say they are very or highly concerned. The Pearson Institute and the Associated Press poll shows that roughly three-quarters also eye the Chinese and Russian governments as major threats to the cybersecurity of the US government.
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