DOGE schneidet „unerwartet und erheblich betroffen“ kritische Pentagon-Einheit ab | Durch DOGE verursachte Personalprobleme führten dazu, dass die Defense Information Systems Agency vor einem „extremen Risiko eines Dienstausfalls“ im gesamten Militär warnte

This is up there with when DOGE fired the only Americans in the country who know how our nuclear weapons work. (DoE/NNSA firings)

Punchline: the nuclear weapon designers and maintainers had to be hired back almost immediately.

Some key issues:

>Efforts to gut the federal workforce by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency significantly derailed operations at a Pentagon tech team with a key U.S. military role, according to materials reviewed by The Intercept.
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>Defenders of DOGE, including Musk, have claimed the project solely ferreted out fraud, waste, and abuse. But according to a December 2025 contracting memo from the Defense Information Systems Agency, DOGE’s tactics caused major problems at the Pentagon’s IT office — which is core to the operation of the U.S. military.
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>The memo describes how DISA’s Command, Control, Communications, and Computers Enterprise Directorate, known as J6, was hobbled by DOGE cuts to such an extent that it was unable to obtain necessary software. This unit is responsible for maintaining secure channels that keep the Pentagon connected to military assets around the world, including nuclear capabilities.
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>“During calendar year 2025, the DISA/J6 program office has been unexpectedly and significantly impacted by Government programs that incentivized personnel separation or extended periods of leave,” the memo reads, “e.g., Deferred Resignation Program, Voluntary Early Retirement Authority, Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments, Paid Parental Leave.”
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>A second DISA memo notes that the Deferred Resignation Program resulted in the departure of an officer responsible for an important Pentagon cloud-computing contract, resulting in that contract expiring entirely. The DOGE-induced staffing shortage resulted in a situation, according to the memo, where DISA’s systems faced “extreme risk for loss of service” across the Department of Defense.
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>While DISA operates behind the scenes, its globe-spanning networks are critical to the armed forces, explained DISA J6’s then-director Sharon Woods in a Pentagon-produced June 2025 interview: “Command, Control, Communications, and Computers — it is what underlies everything and the department’s ability to communicate with itself.” Asked what would happen on a day where DISA J6 couldn’t operate, Woods replied, “In my mind, it cripples the Department [of Defense]… This is really a mission where failure is not an option.”

Given how central information technology is to modern conflicts, slashing and burning the departments and people who are tasked with providing these critical connections and infrastructure is foolhardy to say the least.

It looks like this approach is almost the same approach as Elon took with Twitter when he took over. The difference here of course is that Twitter was a useful but ultimately optional social media platform for information where outages and bugs are annoying but rarely life threatening whereas with DISA there is far more at stake.

but i had such high hopes for the crack team at Doge including, and i want to make sure i get this right „Big Balls“.

If only that was the plan by trump and musk handlers

Bruh if DOGE properly went for the Defense Dept we would all have enough money for free dental

These tech billionaires building a utopia in Greenland, why would they want a functional USA as a neighbour?

Fucking duh.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/trump-administration-nuclear-arsenal-worker-firings

They had to hire back the people who were in charge lf their nuclear weapons…

This is a feature to the administration, not a bug.

USA has been under attack all of 2026…. Gotcha. What else is new? 

It’s almost like the administration is incompetent!