- Defense Secretary Pete Hegesh has confirmed $ 5.1 billion in you savings
- They will be carried out by finishing the contracts with Accenture and others
- Dege has now allowed DOD to save almost $ 6 billion, says Hegseth` ‘
The Department of Defense (DOD) has canceled $ 5.1 billion in IT contracts under the guidance of the Efficient Department of the Government of Elon Musk (Doge), has demonstrated new evidence.
The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, signed a memorandum detailing the cancellations, which consisted mainly of “consulting and other non -essential services.”
As the Musk unit suggests, the DOD also claims to have greater efficiency by eliminating unnecessary steps and duplication, allowing it to assign cash to other central areas of the agency’s reach, such as “best medical attention for our warriors and their families.”
The DOD ends $ 5.1 billion in IT contracts
The terminated contracts include “$ 1.8 billion in consulting contracts, the Defense Health Agency granted several private sector companies, a Business Cloud Services Contract of $ 1.4 billion granted to a software revenue and a $ 500 million contract in the Navy for commercial processes consulting.”
Affected companies include Accenture, Deloitte and Booz Allen.
Hegseth also noted that a $ 500 million contract granted to the Agency for Advanced Defense Research Projects for IT Help Services was “completely duplicate” of the services that the Defense Information System Agency already provides.
The DOD also terminated 11 contracts related to diversity, equity and inclusion, climate change and COVID-19.
Although savings only represent one more touch of half percent of the budget of $ 883.7 billion of the DOD, the goal of ironing the unnecessary expense is at least commendable.
However, critics have argued that there are more factors to consider that simply how much a contract costs, urging the Government to agree on contracts that meet their requirements more efficiently and implement performance metrics.
In more general terms for the DOD, this last announcement deduces from the recently confirmed cut of $ 580 million to certain programs, contracts and subsidies, which raises the total of almost $ 6 billion in savings enabled by the Dux.
