The Division of Protection has obtained an inventory of DOGE officers tasked with slicing 8% from subsequent yr’s finances. “We welcome DOGE to the Pentagon,” stated Secretary Pete Hegseth. “And I hope to welcome Elon to the Pentagon very quickly.”
The Pentagon employs 3.7 million personnel with a finances exceeding $850 billion, but it surely has by no means handed an audit.
Tara Dougherty, CEO of Govini a protection software program firm, labored for 3 former Protection secretaries going again to Robert Gates. She says the most important financial savings will likely be present in overhauling the decades-old weapons acquisition course of, which nonetheless makes use of handbook spreadsheets and fax machines.
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The Pentagon, headquarters of the Division of Protection – file photograph. (DoD photograph by Grasp Sgt. Ken Hammond, U.S. Air Pressure.)
“I would put a big red bull’s eye on the process by which we manage weapons systems and military platforms,” Dougherty stated in an interview with Fox Information. “The defense acquisition process is massively broken….It’s too slow. I mean, the United States is issuing missile purchases through fax machines. It’s using spreadsheet sheets and data calls in order to get nuclear capable platforms off of production lines.”
In consequence F-35 fifth technology stealth fighter jets cannot get out of depot as a result of they’re lacking elements and the protection industrial base within the US doesn’t produce what they want. The following technology intercontinental ballistic missile, a key a part of the nuclear triad, is $35 billion over finances. And the price of the B-21 nuclear bomber is rising and delayed.
“A lot of the weapons systems and the ships, jets, tanks and other capabilities that the department relies on for the military have such complex supply chains that the Department of Defense doesn’t actually know where all of those parts are coming from. And because they’re using spreadsheets to manage the programs overall means they have no ability to see if there are foreign suppliers or in some cases, Chinese suppliers of critical components like microelectronics in our military systems. This is the kind of thing that Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Trump administration are saying, this is no longer acceptable, and that’s what they’re going to root out,” Dougherty stated.
The Pentagon employs 3.7 million personnel with a finances exceeding $850 billion. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu through Getty Photos)
To get forward of the DOGE crew the Navy is contemplating slicing its fleet of frigates, whereas the Military is wanting for financial savings by eliminating outdated drones and surplus automobiles.
Republican Senator Roger Wicker says it’s about time.
“I, for one, as Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, welcome, DOGE coming in to the Pentagon and helping us cut red tape, make the acquisition process more efficient and spend our dollars better,” Wicker stated in an interview with Fox’s Maria Bartiromo.
However not everyone seems to be joyful that DOGE is coming to the Pentagon the place there are various categorised programs and plenty of secret data that US adversaries want to acquire entry to.
“We’ve already seen that this DOGE, I call it the Department of Government inefficiencies, is causing a reign of terror chaos across the federal government,” Cong Eugene VIndman of Virginia instructed CNN. “Just this week, they released classified information about a US intelligence agency. They have access to the American people’s personal information, bank accounts and things like that that that they’re frankly not entitled to. And so I have a major, major concern about them going into the Department of Defense and sitting around with, you know, the internal systems there and US national security.”
The Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) discovered code linking US Treasury funds to a finances line merchandise that was not required earlier than, and accounts for practically $4.7 trillion in funds and left clean. (Musk: Reuters / Cash: iStock / Trump: Getty)
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Concern the DOGE crew will transfer too quick on the expense of nationwide safety materialized after it purged 2000 federal employees from the Division of Vitality, together with 350, lots of whom oversaw the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Many of those federal employees had been working on the Pantex Plant close to Amarillo, Texas, reassembling nuclear warheads, one of the vital delicate jobs that requires the very best stage of safety clearance.
The administration did an about-face final week and rapidly tried to find and rehire the Division of Vitality staff overseeing the nukes.
On the Division of Veterans Affairs, the company introduced the dismissal of over 1000 staff, following DOGE steerage. Veterans Affairs staff joined Democratic lawmakers outdoors the D.C. headquarters to protest DOGE’s actions on the VA final week.
