The Department of Defense (DoD) lost another top IT official on April 18, with the resignation of Preston Dunlap, the founding Chief Architecture Officer of the Air and Space Forces.
Dunlap said that he was proud of the three years he spent at the Pentagon in an open resignation letter posted to social media, but that bureaucracy, a risk-averse culture, and other internal issues made innovation more difficult than it should have been.
He said that the DoD fostered an environment in which it was “hard, but not impossible” to innovate, and compared the effort required to break through Pentagon bureaucracy to the effort needed to push satellites past earth’s gravity.
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