{"id":170012,"date":"2025-05-29T07:26:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=170012"},"modified":"2025-05-29T07:43:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:43:51","slug":"doge-and-the-dod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=170012","title":{"rendered":"DOGE and the DOD"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"
\n“Converting consultants into combat power”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Whoa: Hegseth Makes Big Announcement About DOGE Findings at Pentagon – They’re Massive<\/h3>\n

By Nick Arama<\/strong><\/p>\n

We got good news from Office of Management and Budget (OMB) head Russ Vought on Wednesday when he announced on Fox Business that the first bill codifying DOGE cuts would be coming next week.<\/p>\n

The first bill will include foreign aid, USAID, and NPR, among other items. How much it will encompass in terms of money is not yet clear but those subjects could cover a lot.<\/p>\n

That sounds like a good start. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he was eager and ready to act on the bill so they could deliver even more cuts for the American people.<\/p>\n

But there’s more coming because they’re still working and finding wasteful spending, and there are some of the big items at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered an important statement on X on Wednesday in which he said they’d identified an enormous amount in potential cuts.<\/p>\n

Hegseth said their main focus and charge he’d received from President Donald Trump was to restore the warrior ethos. He said a big part of that is finding out what works and what doesn’t work. They identified an overreliance on “management consultants and contractors.” He said they likely had more contractors than they had civilian employees.<\/p>\n

He said reviewing these contracts with DOGE, they’d identified $5 billion in savings, in addition to the $5 billion they’d already identified.<\/p>\n

Hegseth also said he was issuing three memos.<\/p>\n

The first was responsibly reducing the number of management consultants and contractors. He stressed these were not fighters, but people who “gave PowerPoints.” The second dealt with needed reforms to the Department’s usage of executive assistants. The third involved restructuring the Department’s operational and test evaluation office, which will make testing weapons more efficient.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Red State<\/a><\/p>\n

10B USD in savings? Not bad for a two-week effort. The memos are huge- the entire military acquisition process is in dire need of reform and DOT&E is the place to start. These are the folks who green-lighted the Littoral Combat Ship for a shining reason why. As for the rest, it’s long been a fact that most contractors will make more than their government counterparts, and Admirals come and go but EA’s are forever.
\nThis is a very good start but just that- a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Converting consultants into combat power”\u00a0 Whoa: Hegseth Makes Big Announcement About DOGE Findings at Pentagon – … DOGE and the DOD<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":167449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}