Mass resignations at key Pentagon unit after DOGE starts 'smashing everything': report

Source: Raw Story

April 15, 2025 2:34PM ET


Employees with the Pentagon's digital technology unit, dubbed the "SWAT team of nerds," have decided to resign together rather than deal with changes being brought about by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, according to new reporting from Politico.

The report states that the Defense Digital Services unit was once considered the Pentagon's "fast-track tech development arm" and "one of the department’s earliest efforts to inject Silicon Valley ethos into its massive bureaucracy."

Created in 2015, DDS helped the Pentagon "adopt fast tech fixes during national security crises" and pushed "Silicon Valley-style innovation inside the Pentagon," according to reporter Mohar Chatterjee. "It built rapid response tools for the military during the Afghanistan withdrawal, databases to transfer Ukrainian military and humanitarian aid," and "drone detection technologies," among other projects.

With the ascendance of DOGE, however, DDS will effectively shut down by the end of this month. "Without the program, some key efforts to streamline the DOD’s tech talent pipeline and counter adversarial drones will be sunsetted," Chatterjee wrote.

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