Every member of the Pentagon’s Defense Digital Service has elected to resign underneath pressure from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. Formed in 2015, the Defense Digital Service — dubbed the DOD’s “SWAT team of nerds — is (sorry, was) a 14-member team of far-left techies from Silicon Valley. Reportedly, they all elected to resign instead of being forced out by DOGE. DDS Director Jennifer Hay will be leaving by May 1st, followed by the rest of the team, with the majority of the other members opting to take President Trump’s deferred resignation package. Here are the details: Employees at Defense Digital Service, a “SWAT team of nerds,” are resigning en masse from their jobs at the Pentagon following pressure from the Department of Government Efficiency, it was reported. https://t.co/TpjwquWa3C — NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) April 15, 2025 Pentagon’s ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse – this was the office set up in 2015 to streamline innovation from Silicon Valley. Then came DOGE. ⁦@politico⁩ https://t.co/28zbTI9qxE — Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) April 16, 2025 Notably, this team was responsible for a very suspicious program to transfer millions of government IP address before President Trump left the White House in 2021… The Defense Digital Services team resigning en masse today? They were behind the “secretive” Pentagon pilot program that transferred millions of gov’t IP addresses minutes before Trump left office in 2021. The plot thickens… pic.twitter.com/XMKQqPKTSw — CatTheGreat (@CatTheGreat_) April 15, 2025 Coincidental? Politico reported on the resignations: Under pressure from the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, nearly all the staff of the Defense Digital Service — the Pentagon’s fast-track tech development arm — are resigning over the coming month, according to the director and three other current members of the office granted anonymity to discuss their job status freely, as well as internal emails. The resignations will effectively shut down the decade-old program after the end of April. 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. Without the program, some key efforts to streamline the DOD’s tech talent pipeline and counter adversarial drones will be sunset, one soon-to-be former employee said. Once dubbed the Pentagon’s “SWAT team of nerds,” DDS was one of the department’s earliest efforts to inject Silicon Valley ethos into its massive bureaucracy. Jennifer Hay, director of the 14-person office, plans to leave by May 1. Eleven other employees plan to take President Donald Trump’s deferred resignation package by then. The two remaining staffers are also leaving. The Hill added: 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.