Rockwell Automation Faces U.S. Probe Over China Operations


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Rockwell Automation’s headquarters in Milwaukee. Photo: Angela Peterson/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/USA Today Network WASHINGTON—The Biden administration is investigating whether Rockwell Automation , one of the world’s largest industrial technology and information companies, is exposing critical U.S. infrastructure, military and other government assets to a potentially serious cyberattack through one of its China-based facilities, according to U.S. officials and documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The Milwaukee-based information giant provides productivity-improvement software and cybersecurity services to computer platforms used in the national power grid as well as by the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard and other parts of the federal government,...