Britain is on the verge of a much-delayed and debated decision about allowing Huawei to build “non-core” components of its 5G network.

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei made a dramatic offer to let all comers license and modify his 5G technology. Making it secure would be a Herculean task.

To protect the content of 5G transmissions, the Pentagon should accelerate development of mobile applications using end-to-end encryption. Today’s military radios or encrypted email only encrypt a message in transit. The message exists in an unencrypted form in the receiving server.

Nicholas Eftimiades, a former senior US senior intelligence officer, said the Trump Administration policy “is very surgical in its approach,” and will have only a “moderate impact” on allied countries.

The coming network needed for autonomous vehicles, virtual reality, and the Internet of Things will also bring cybersecurity danger.

“What I want to bet on is the ability of the United States and our Western allies to out-innovate adversaries,” says Mike Griffin, undersecretary of Defense for research and engineering.

The secretary heads first to CENTCOM to hammer out the details of Operation Sentinel, a plan to monitor and protect shipping from Iran in Persian Gulf.

How do you find hundreds of vulnerabilities hidden in millions of lines of firmware code?

Trump’s declaration has to be translated into legal rules — by officials who don’t share his conciliatory stance.

“This is such a data-rich world that the person who can command that data first is the one who’s gonna have a real advantage.”