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, Politico reported.

The resignations will shut down the decade-old program at the end of the month, three employees told Politico.

The agency was created in 2015 to help the Defense Department adopt tech fixes during national security crises with the goal of having Silicon Valley-style innovation inside the Pentagon, Politico said.

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