The ill-fated Department of Government Efficiency didn’t actually save the American taxpayers any money, but that doesn’t mean that it didn’t accomplish anything. For instance, it seems at least some of them figured out that there is a lot of money to be made by securing contracts with the Pentagon. According to a report from Reuters, a startup founded by several former DOGE employees just completed a funding round that values their company at $1.4 billion. Fun fact: did you know DOGE was officially sunsetted on July 4th? It came and went with little fanfare because, after an initial dismantling of the “wokest” government agencies and seemingly blindly eliminating any contract that contained any word they didn’t like without actually reviewing it, it just kinda stopped. Despite claiming to have saved more than $55 billion through its “review” process, experts put the figure closer to $7 billion when they’re being generous and $1 billion when they’re being realistic. But now some of the agency’s former staffers are positioning themselves to pull in more money than they ever saved. Per Reuters, the ex-Elon Musk acolytes just closed a funding round for Cathedral, their military-targeted startup, that raised $160 million from the usual suspects, including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.