https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/15\/pentagons-digital-resignations-00290930<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“The Defense Digital Service was created in 2015 to help the Pentagon adopt fast tech fixes during national security crises and push Silicon Valley-style innovation inside the Pentagon. It built rapid response tools for the military during the Afghanistan withdrawal, databases to transfer Ukrainian military and humanitarian aid, drone detection technologies and more.<\/p>\n
Without the program, some key efforts to streamline the DOD\u2019s tech talent pipeline and counter adversarial drones will be sunsetted, one soon-to-be former employee said.<\/p>\n
Once dubbed the Pentagon\u2019s \u201cSWAT team of nerds,\u201d DDS was one of the department\u2019s earliest efforts to inject Silicon Valley ethos into its massive bureaucracy.”<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
“every employee interviewed said they wouldn\u2019t have left if it wasn\u2019t for DOGE.<\/p>\n
One former senior Pentagon official, who asked not to be named because of possible retaliation, described DOGE\u2019s wider incursion into the Defense Department as damaging and unproductive<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re not really using AI, they\u2019re not really driving efficiency. What they\u2019re doing is smashing everything,\u201d the former official said.”<\/p>\n
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