The Air Force's First Software Chief Stepped Down--But He Won't Be Quiet

As he settles into post-government life, Nicolas Chaillan still expects to call out the foreign competitors and domestic roadblocks that he says increasingly endanger U.S. security and informed his decision to publicly resign as the Air Force's first chief software officer. "Right now, the urgency is spending time with my kids first, and waking up America before it is too late. Because otherwise, there's just no point," Chaillan told Nextgov in an interview Tuesday. "Otherwise I need to invest in a bunker." A computer coder by the age of seven, Chaillan started his own companies in France at 15.