"The head of the Defence Digital Service (dubbed "SWAT Team of Nerds" by its own members) has succeeded in expanding the scope of his department's operations beyond simply solving IT problems for the Pentagon. However, this required him to cut through a tangle of red tape put in place by the department's bureaucracy.
The chief of the Pentagon's Defence Digital Service (DDS),
Brett Goldstein, said in an interview with Politico that he will be stepping down in July 2021 after two years in the post."
One of the most recent DDS' operations under Goldstein raised eyebrows once it became public in April 2021: it transpired that on the last day of President Donald Trump's administration, the DDS activated millions of previously dormant IP addresses reserved for the Pentagon's use. The unit handed over for management nearly 6 percent of all available addresses under the IPv4 protocol to previously unknown company Global Resource Systems (GBS)
thus making it the single biggest custodian of internet IP addresses in the world.
The DDS said the operation was carried out to "evaluate and prevent unauthorised use of Department of Defence IP address space" without delving into details. Yet, it did not explain why 20 January was specifically chosen as the launch date, sparking conspiracy theories trying to link the move to Trump's departure from the White House."
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