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Re:82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on governm... by jml78 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @09:10PM (#22134750)
Sorta but sorta not.

Lots of things are contracted out but still run in DoD data centers with government oversight.

Me = Former DoD software engineer of 12 years.

But even so, there are a shit ton of DoD software people.

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Re:82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on governm... by bradknowles on Saturday January 25, 2020 @03:22PM (#22148417)
There’s an entire Agency of them.

It’s called the Defense Information Systems Agency. And they’re not even the biggest in that space.

I worked there for about five years.

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