In recent months, Townhall has covered how President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), spearheaded by Elon Musk, has dismantled government agencies that have been wastefully spending tax dollars.
One example is the United States Agency for International Development, which was gutted after Musk and his team uncovered many woke initiatives the agency funded across the globe.
At the same time, many government staffers have decided to quit their jobs. Staffers in the Pentagon are no exception.
This week, POLITICO reported that nearly all staffers of the Defense Digital Service at the Pentagon are resigning over the coming month. The director and three current members of the office confirmed this to the outlet.
POLITICO confirmed that these resignations will effectively shut down the decade-old program after the end of April (via POLITICO):
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.
This team was called the “SWAT team of nerds,” the outlet noted. The team’s director, Jennifer Hay, plans to leave by May 1. Eleven other employees plan to take the Trump administration’s deferred resignation package by then. Two other staffers are also leaving.
Hay told the outlet that she expected to be utilized by DOGE, but was not.
A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed to POLITICO that the office’s functions would be absorbed by the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office.