工程师Chenguang Gong认罪 窃取逾3600份导弹探测技术文件
2025年7月21日，美国司法部宣布，工程师 Chenguang Gong 在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶县 Los Angeles 市的联邦法院承认一项窃取商业秘密罪。Gong 现年59岁，住在加州圣克拉拉县 San Jose 市，拥有美国与中国双重国籍，此前曾在洛杉矶地区一家研发公司短暂任职；他目前以175万美元保释金在外候审。
2023年1月，受害公司聘请 Gong 担任专用集成电路设计经理，负责其红外传感器的设计、开发与验证。据认罪协议，2023年3月30日至4月26日期间，Gong 把逾3,600份文件从工作电脑转入三个个人存储设备，其中逾1,800份是在他接受一家与受害公司直接竞争的公司的工作之后转走的。
被转走的文件包括：供天基系统探测核导弹发射、跟踪弹道与高超声速导弹的复杂红外传感器蓝图；让美军战机探测热寻的导弹并干扰其红外跟踪的传感器蓝图；探测低可探测目标的「下一代」传感器技术；以及传感器低温外壳机械组件的蓝图。许多文件标有 PROPRIETARY、FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY 与 EXPORT CONTROLLED 等字样，受害公司估值数亿美元。部分文件后来在 Gong 位于文图拉县 Thousand Oaks 市的临时住所被查获。认罪协议所列的拟议经济损失逾350万美元。
司法部还称，2014年至2022年，Gong 在多家美国科技公司任职期间多次向中国政府的人才计划提交申请，其中2014年的提案涉及军民两用的高性能模数转换器，2020年的提案涉及夜视传感器技术；他在2019年的一封邮件中称，自己「冒了风险」为中国的「高端军用集成电路」出力。
联邦地区法官 John F. Walter 已定于2025年9月29日量刑，Gong 面临法定最高10年监禁。此案由联邦调查局洛杉矶分局的反情报特遣队、国务院外交安全局与国土安全调查局调查，联邦调查局旧金山分局与加州北区联邦检察官办公室提供协助；负责起诉的检察官为 David C. Lachman、Nisha Chandran 与 Brendan P. Geary。
（来源：美国司法部）
Engineer Chenguang Gong Pleads Guilty to Stealing Over 3,600 Files on Missile-Detection Technology
On July 21, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that engineer Chenguang Gong had pleaded guilty in federal court in Los Angeles, a city in Los Angeles County, California, to one count of theft of trade secrets. Gong, 59, lives in San Jose, a city in Santa Clara County, California, holds dual citizenship of the United States and China, and had briefly worked at a research and development company in the Los Angeles area; he remains free on $1.75 million bond.
In January 2023, the victim company hired Gong as an application-specific integrated circuit design manager responsible for the design, development and verification of its infrared sensors. According to his plea agreement, between March 30 and April 26, 2023, Gong transferred more than 3,600 files from his work laptop to three personal storage devices, including more than 1,800 files transferred after he had accepted a job at a company that directly competes with the victim company.
The transferred files included blueprints for sophisticated infrared sensors designed for use in space-based systems to detect nuclear missile launches and track ballistic and hypersonic missiles; blueprints for sensors designed to enable U.S. military aircraft to detect incoming heat-seeking missiles and jam their infrared tracking; technology for 'next generation' sensors capable of detecting low observable targets; and blueprints for the mechanical assemblies used to house and cryogenically cool the company's sensors. Many of the files were marked PROPRIETARY, FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY and EXPORT CONTROLLED, and the victim company is valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. Some of the files were later found at Gong's temporary residence in Thousand Oaks, a city in Ventura County, California. The intended economic loss set out in the plea agreement exceeds $3.5 million.
The Justice Department also said that from 2014 to 2022, while working at several U.S. technology companies, Gong repeatedly applied to talent programs run by the Government of China, including a 2014 proposal involving high-performance analog-to-digital converters for military and civilian use and a 2020 proposal involving night-vision sensor technology; in a 2019 email, he wrote that he 'took a risk' by working on China's 'high-end military integrated circuits.'
U.S. District Judge John F. Walter scheduled sentencing for September 29, 2025, when Gong faces a statutory maximum of 10 years in prison. The case was investigated by the FBI Los Angeles Field Office's counterintelligence task force, the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service and Homeland Security Investigations, with assistance from the FBI San Francisco Field Office and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California. The prosecutors are David C. Lachman, Nisha Chandran and Brendan P. Geary.
(Source: U.S. Department of Justice)
来源：美国司法部
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图片来源：图：位于洛杉矶市中心的 Edward R. Roybal 联邦大楼与美国法院大楼，加州中区联邦地区法院建筑群之一，本案在洛杉矶的联邦法院认罪。Alexis Doine 摄，CC0，经 Wikimedia Commons（本站裁取大楼主体画面）。 / Photo: The Edward R. Roybal Federal Building and United States Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles, part of the courthouse complex of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California; the guilty plea in this case was entered in federal court in Los Angeles. Photo by Alexis Doine, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped to the building.
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