Entire Pentagon defense tech unit to leave by May (thehill.com)
from ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to technology@lemmy.world on 17 Apr 05:03
https://slrpnk.net/post/20932717

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.

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just_another_person@lemmy.world on 17 Apr 05:10 next collapse

WINNING…right?? Are we winning yet?

justsomeguy@lemmy.world on 17 Apr 05:31 next collapse

You’re winning so much that you’re starting to say oh no it’s too much winning, ah, please stop.

Prior_Industry@lemmy.world on 17 Apr 06:26 next collapse

Russian and Chinese hackers certainly are.

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org on 17 Apr 08:49 next collapse

Yes, you are winning, of course you are. You are winning big time, greatest win of all times, very greatest, and nobody (left) who could deny that.

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br on 17 Apr 15:57 collapse

They’re going t0 be recruited by Palantir or other government contractor and keep doing the same job with less oversight

tyrant@lemmy.world on 17 Apr 05:29 next collapse

Weakening our country, one idiotic step at a time

VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz on 17 Apr 06:19 next collapse

Don’t worry, soon there won’t be any state secrets left to keep, then Pentagon can save all that money used to keep it.

IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee on 17 Apr 06:38 next collapse

It’s a moot point to debate whether Trump is a Russian asset or not. Either way, he’s acting as if he was.

MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip on 17 Apr 16:23 next collapse

Future Republicans are going to be very ashamed of the Republicans who support Trump, they still exist in the future.

Dagwood222@lemm.ee on 17 Apr 16:38 next collapse

The scenario I’ve been imagining would go like this. The Cheney/Romney/McConnell GOP would abandon the Republican name to the MAGoos and do a hostile takeover of the Libertarian Party. Right now the Libs have about 800,000 nation wide. The Cheney bloc could join and overwhelm the old guard and be on the ballot in all fifty state instantly.

Ledericas@lemm.ee on 18 Apr 09:36 collapse

Moscow Mitch doesn’t get a pass,

Dagwood222@lemm.ee on 18 Apr 11:18 collapse

Get real.

Mitch is going to die comfortably and probably have some schools named after him after he’s gone.

There would have to be a lot of people killed before things changed wnought to change that, and I don’t think it’s worth the cost.

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works on 17 Apr 20:34 next collapse

Republicans? Ashamed?

I see you haven’t met many Republicans.

rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee on 17 Apr 21:27 next collapse

Good joke.

trolololol@lemmy.world on 18 Apr 00:37 next collapse

If history is the best way to predict the future, current Republicans will be ashamed of future Republicans, but in private. In public they’ll play along.

BrainInABox@lemmy.ml on 18 Apr 09:56 next collapse

Lol, I heard the same thing about George Bush

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 Apr 11:54 next collapse

They have long since eliminated the part of their personalities that feel shame.

boughtmysoul@lemmy.world on 18 Apr 20:29 collapse

Oh sorry, you must have just woken from a coma you entered in 1995.

BrainInABox@lemmy.ml on 18 Apr 10:07 next collapse

It matters a lot, actually; when you recognise Trumpian fascism as the product of domestic, structural, problems, you can make the kind of policy changes that reverse the slide into fascism. But when you blame all the countries problems on the sinister machinations of perfidious foreigners, you’re just going to end up rushing even faster into jingoism, militarism, and McCarthyism, which will ultimately only accelerate the slide into fascism.

InvertedParallax@lemm.ee on 18 Apr 11:30 collapse

It’s a moot point to debate whether Trump is a Russian asset or not. Either way, he’s acting as if he was.

Yes, but we do get to abuse brown people right?

SrMono@feddit.org on 17 Apr 08:04 next collapse

I‘m sure one of Musk’s underage geniuses will take over as a oneman-army 😂

morphballganon@mtgzone.com on 17 Apr 15:33 next collapse

What could go wrong

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 17 Apr 16:09 next collapse

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.”

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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.ee on 17 Apr 22:18 collapse

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.

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 17 Apr 22:58 next collapse

Maybe. It could also be a big nothingburger.

Liberteez@lemm.ee on 18 Apr 00:15 collapse

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.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 Apr 11:53 collapse

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.

reksas@sopuli.xyz on 17 Apr 17:07 next collapse

America becomes even more weak, thanks to traitor president trump

BrainInABox@lemmy.ml on 18 Apr 09:56 collapse

Yeah, that’s the problem with the current administration: they’re not loyal nationalists…

DrDeadCrash@programming.dev on 18 Apr 10:46 collapse

Trump and his red hats are traitors to the Constitution.

BrainInABox@lemmy.ml on 18 Apr 10:50 collapse

Great to see American liberals turn into Tea Party era Republicans.

DrDeadCrash@programming.dev on 18 Apr 10:53 collapse

I sure hope they turn into something

BrainInABox@lemmy.ml on 18 Apr 10:55 collapse

They are: fascists.

DrDeadCrash@programming.dev on 18 Apr 10:58 next collapse

The ones sending people off to death camps are fascist, the red hats, the trumpers…

BrainInABox@lemmy.ml on 18 Apr 10:59 collapse

Extrajudicial murder has been bipartisan policy for decades.

DrDeadCrash@programming.dev on 18 Apr 11:02 collapse

Great, fuck them all to hell

BrainInABox@lemmy.ml on 18 Apr 11:15 collapse

Yes, correct, I’m glad I could change your mind

[deleted] on 18 Apr 18:50 collapse

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gargolito@lemm.ee on 17 Apr 18:51 collapse

How else is the Kremlin supposed to finish destroying the US. Duh!

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world on 18 Apr 02:55 collapse

in complete fairness. even without high technology augmenting US Military, it’s still about 500 years ahead of Russian infantry.

the only way we would lose a war is if military leadership doesn’t coup and leaves the current regime in power.

jimbel@lemm.ee on 18 Apr 07:28 collapse

USA will not face a hot war with russia.

USA is already lost in fake news and lies and due to that the people voted for dictatorship. Now the USA is an ally of russia and it is working to cement that further by cutting its bonds with the free world. USA just united with russa in UN votings. Even China and Iran did not unite with russia in that voting. US President Trump wants to be like Putin. US Americans need to face it.

I hope that this will not happen in europe as well. Russia disinformation campaigns are working successful in Europe as well.

Ledericas@lemm.ee on 18 Apr 09:34 next collapse

Russia realized this in the 80s against the USA, so they sought to use propaganda to undermine the USa, whine worked. And conveniently found trump during that time too

BrainInABox@lemmy.ml on 18 Apr 09:55 next collapse
jimbel@lemm.ee on 18 Apr 17:47 collapse

I even think russia and usa may work together more closely in the future. Just because they want the same oligarchy and yet there is no need for them to clash against each other. China on the other hand could be a real threat and rival for the USA, just because both are mighty super powers. I wonder how Canada, Europe and India will fit into this.

Ledericas@lemm.ee on 19 Apr 03:32 collapse

russia pays most of the right wing governments all over the worlds, its not a coinidence they all came out of the woodwork all at once, and the grifter(russian funded) started making huge noise. additioanlly they also fund white supremecist groups in the us too.

BrainInABox@lemmy.ml on 18 Apr 10:03 collapse

Europe is fucked for the same reason America is: because they’ve completely bought into their own propaganda about being the “exceptional free world” and thus have become incapable of even acknowledging the existence of domestic structural issues, instead scapegoating all of their problems onto the corrupting influence of the foreign Other, which is an ideological path guaranteed to lead to fascism.