Posted on 04/16/2025 1:59:54 AM PDT by Libloather
The entire staff of the Defense Digital Service (DDS), the Pentagon’s decade-old technology development office, is leaving by the start of May, with nearly all individuals resigning, a current member of the office confirmed to The Hill on Tuesday.
The mass exodus, first reported by Politico, means the service will effectively shutter in less than a month.
Of the 14 members of the office, a dozen including Director Jennifer Hay have requested the Trump administration’s deferred resignation option and plan to leave by May 1. Two other staffers are also leaving in that time frame.
“Although DDS was excited to support DoD’s efforts to improve efficiencies and champion software modernization initiatives, the Administration was not leveraging DDS and hiring freezes, rescinding remote work, and travel restrictions were making us non-mission capable,” the current office member told The Hill. “As a result, most of the team elected to resign.”
A Pentagon spokesperson did not provide any additional information when asked for comment on the resignations.
Created in 2015, the Defense Digital Service was meant to help the Pentagon quickly solve technology challenges. The small team of engineers and data experts who made up the office were meant to bring Silicon Valley-style solutions to the Defense Department, a mammoth federal agency that historically struggles with quick innovation.
Then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter said at the time the DDS would “apply a more innovative and agile approach to solving DoD’s complex IT problems,” such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI).
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Ok then
Created in 2015, the Defense Digital Service was meant to help the Pentagon quickly solve technology challenges
After a decade, they should have been done but my guess is that they were just another DEI project
Looks like she has decades of experience, /s
I’m going to bet most don’t even live within commute distance to the Pentagon.
They can be replaced by a troops of 12 year old hackers.
There's yer problem right there.
Real life don't work like that. I bet they imagined some kind of genius team that solved complex problems weekly like they have on TV.
This was just a team that spied on Americans. Good bye!
From https://www.ai.mil/About/Leadership/Bio-Page/Article/3944278/jennifer-hay/
Jennifer has spent nearly two decades working in various roles with the Department of Defense and the White House, including positions on the National Security Council staff, the office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security, and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Or 2 of Elon’s Employees.
I worked on the Joint Chiefs of Staff from December 2009 to September 2019. The IT system we used as Editors was a piece of crap that continuously went down on a weekly basis, for days at a time.
Wonder how many servers were bitcoin mining for their personal retirement plans.
I wonder how many of the 14 are actually engineers, and I wonder what the requirements are to be a fully qualified federal “data expert?”
Out of the 14 none, apparently, were able to explain what they did there every week.
WHERE THE HELL do they find these kids??? She looks like she’s 12.
Fresh out of the indoctrination camp aka Harvard or similar. Obama hired all the old pro communists like Rice and Valjar and biden aka obama 3.0 hired a bunch of young versions for underlings.
Wonderful news! All they wanted was pay check and wield power, not truly america first thinking.
Putting DoD data in the international clouds is a mistake anyhow.
The “leader” has a BA in Political Science and an MA in International Affairs.
Maybe an expert on “artificial,” not so much on “intelligence.”
Nada on computer science, machine learning, quantum computing, or complex software design.
I’m far too much a gentleman to post regarding any “digital” or “hardware”experience she may possess, seeing it was probably battery operated.
Six years in liberal arts studies, and she has “two decades of experience?” Nope, not going to touch that.
I wonder how many millions of our dollars they fraudulently laundered to the Progtards in the past decade?
For the tech-savvy Trump team, the departure of these unmotivated holdovers is no loss.
I guess they never got around to upgrading Defense Finance and Accounting Service ( DFAS). That website is a steaming pile of crap.
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