Mike Griffin Is Not Making Many Friends at DoD
Top DoD Official Shank Resigns; SCO Moving To DARPA, Breaking Defense
“My integrity and belief in SCO’s mission is more important to me than my friendship over many years with Mike (Griffin).” That is why the head of the Pentagon’s vaunted Strategic Capabilities Office, Chris Shank, has resigned rather than see his office transferred to DARPA. Griffin called Shank into his office on Friday and told him the office would be transferred and asked for Shank’s resignation. He agreed and immediately resigned. Griffin has pushed hard for the transfer of the SCO but Rep. Mac Thornberry, top HASC Republican, added language calling for more study of the move in the HASC National Defense Authorization Act markup last Wednesday. The Senate Armed Services Committee added similar language. They are not alone in opposing the transfer of SCO.”
After the way he ran NASA into the ground while wasting years of valuable time, Griffin has no credibility left and should not be making any decisions.
The SCO was repurposing existing DOD work and systems. It’s a new organization asking for more and more funding. Glad Griffin is moving it to DARPA since it covers such RDTE mission for multiple dod agencies.