18F/USDS doesn't really work on the military industrial complex, but civil applications like social welfare. The beneficiaries of USDS's work are, for example,

18F/USDS doesn't really work on the military industrial complex, but civil applications like social welfare. The beneficiaries of USDS's work are, for example, poor people who can get benefits more efficiently. In that sense it is "serving your country" like AmeriCorps or Habitat for Humanity or becoming a social worker. So yes, U.S. Cyber Command will use the same rhetoric and you shouldn't believe it, but this isn't that.