Cybersecurity
Pentagon’s Designer of $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Is Stepping Down
- Chris Lynch to leave as director of Defense Digital Service
- Former OpenTable executive Brett Goldstein to start this month
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The Pentagon official who developed a controversial $10 billion cloud-computing project is stepping down after four years of efforts to upgrade the Defense Department’s information technology systems.
Chris Lynch, director of the Defense Digital Service, told his staff in an email that he was ending his "nerd tour of duty.” Brett Goldstein, Chicago’s former chief information officer, “will be leading Defense Digital Service through its next phase to grow and expand this incredible work,” he said.