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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.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    3 days ago

    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.”

    …

    Still, DDS efforts are expected to continue elsewhere. The member who spoke with The Hill said the office has “found permanent homes for most of our ongoing projects.”

    So:

    • it’s not a huge office
    • seems more of a protest than being forced out (though maybe that was inevitable, we don’t know)
    • projects are continuing, just under different management - so expect delays, but projects aren’t cancelled

    I would really like a rolling breakdown of the impacts Trump and DOGE have had on government functions, with potential and actual impacts spelled out, and ideally as impartial/unbiased as possible. Anyone have a source for something like this?

    • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
      19·
      2 days ago

      The impacts are going to be compounding and felt for decades. People do not understand the work federal employees do, and many federal employees don’t even always comprehend how far the work can reach.

      It might be impossible to understand the downstream compounding effects.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        8·
        2 days ago

        People do not understand the work federal employees do, and many federal employees don’t even always comprehend how far the work can reach.

        This 100%. People have no fucking concept of the permanent damage that has already been done.

        • Liberteez@lemm.eeEnglish
          15·
          2 days ago

          The collapse of the Soviet Union in the late 80s into the early 90s is all I think about. Now Russia is a new kind of hell.