Elon Musk’s DOGE strikes once more!
Just about each employees member of the Pentagon’s “Protection Digital Service” is resigning over the approaching weeks after Musk’s DOGE staff cleaned home.
DOGE is changing the staff of far-left Silicon Valley techies dubbed the “SWAT staff of nerds” and handing their duties over to the Chief Digital and Synthetic Intelligence Workplace.
Politico reported:
Beneath stress from the Elon Musk-led Division of Authorities Effectivity, practically all of the employees of the Protection Digital Service — the Pentagon’s fast-track tech improvement arm — are resigning over the approaching month, in accordance with the director and three different present members of the workplace, granted anonymity to debate their job standing freely, in addition to inner emails.
The resignations will successfully shut down the decade-old program after the top of April.
The Protection Digital Service was created in 2015 to assist the Pentagon undertake quick tech fixes throughout nationwide safety crises and push Silicon Valley-style innovation contained in the Pentagon. It constructed speedy response instruments for the navy throughout the Afghanistan withdrawal, databases to switch Ukrainian navy and humanitarian help, drone detection applied sciences and extra.
With out this system, some key efforts to streamline the DOD’s tech expertise pipeline and counter adversarial drones will likely be sunsetted, one soon-to-be former worker stated.
As soon as dubbed the Pentagon’s “SWAT staff of nerds,” DDS was one of many division’s earliest efforts to inject Silicon Valley ethos into its large paperwork.
Jennifer Hay, director of the 14-person workplace, plans to go away by Might 1. Eleven different workers plan to take President Donald Trump’s deferred resignation bundle by then. The 2 remaining staffers are additionally leaving.