Posted on 06/23/2020 3:38:58 PM PDT by bitt
The Pentagon’s top technology official and his deputy are resigning next month, a Defense Department official confirmed on Tuesday.
Mike Griffin, the Pentagon's first undersecretary of research and engineering, and his deputy, Lisa Porter, will leave July 10, the official said.
The resignations were first reported by Inside Defense.
Griffin, who took on the role in early 2018, and Porter said in a letter to staff that “a private-sector opportunity has presented itself to us, offering an opportunity we have decided to pursue together,” Defense News reported.
“It has been a pleasure leading this great team over the past few years. We greatly appreciate your hard work, diligence, integrity, and devotion to technical excellence and technical truth in furtherance of the R&E mission,” the two wrote, according to the outlet. “We wish you all the very best.”
The two are the third and fourth officials to announce their resignation in the last week.
Kathryn Wheelbarger, the acting assistant Defense secretary for international security affairs, submitted her resignation on June 17, five days after President Trump pulled her name as the intended nominee to be deputy undersecretary of Defense for intelligence.
And Elaine McCusker, the Pentagon's acting comptroller who questioned the Trump administration for its withholding of aid to Ukraine last year, submitted her resignation a day earlier after the White House in early March pulled her nomination for the official comptroller role.
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A couple of appointees cashing in and a couple of disgruntled passed-over appointees quit — par for the course and same-old, same-old.
So, what you are saying, is that there are job openings in the Pentagon.
I suppose there’s another couple of books bashing Trump in the offing.
Ran out of things to reverse engineer from the Roswell UFO. LOL.
When do their books come out?
This isn’t a big deal....we’re months away from the election....some people want to continue others decide to leave.
Thinking that Mike and Lisa are doing the MATRESS MAMBO!!
It sure beats the usual "spend time with the family" BS excuse for leaving.
I have personally seen over a billion dollars wasted for a program that was promised to be fielded in 2017, but now beyond 2024 when there was a viable fielded option. The money and power was not there. Really opened my eyes to see MGs knowingly commit that waste.
I am of the view that there are a lot of retired LTC’s that are capable of GO operations, but they were not PC. I would like to see Trump populate the GVT with a lot of these retired O5’s that would do the right thing if given the chance.
F’’k the Obama GOs.
I heard on John Batchelor an interview with an IT contractor for the Pentagon who used to work there. He set up his own company after he left government and seems to be doing very well. I wouldn’t be surprised if these people are going to work for him.
hmmmm... way out on a limb here...If it wasn’t Baker, could either or both of these have leaked the Flynn\Kislyak
We have a new The Forehead.
If they don’t have a DD-214 they would not really understand anyway.
“GO means Grade Officer”
Wow, I should have read your comment closer. GO means General Officer, out of 100 new lieutenants/ensigns, only one will make GO.
Unfortunately the GO ranks become too political.
More to the story? Could there be a ChiCom connection? Just wondering.
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