The Department of the Navy’s chief information officer left her post after nearly two years. Jane Overslaugh Rathbun, who served as the Department of the Navy’s top expert for cybersecurity, electromagnetic threats and privacy, suddenly announced her retirement last week. She is the latest senior Navy official to leave or be fired this month.

Rathbun shared the news in a LinkedIn post on Aug. 22, saying that it was hard to sum up more than three decades working in national security.

“It is with gratitude, pride, and humility that I close out this chapter of my career as a civil servant,” she wrote.

In her post, Rathbun did not give a reason for why she was retiring or if she was leaving the post immediately. However, a Navy official confirmed to Task & Purpose that she has since left he

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