- The US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, completed $ 5.1 billion and consulting contracts.
- This includes contracts with companies like Accenture and Deloitte.
- He said dismissals “represent $ 5.1 billion in unnecessary expenses” at DOD.
The Secretary in the United States of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has just ordered the termination of IT and consult contracts with companies like Accenture and Deloitte, calling it “unnecessary expenses”.
In a service note from the Ministry of Defense, Hegseth said that he would reduce a contract from the Defense Health Agency “for Accenture, Deloitte, Booz Allen and other companies that can be carried out by our civil workforce”.
The Air Force contract with Accenture is also on the Air Force contract to “reflect the IT services of the third -party business cloud”, which Hegseth says that the government can “already fulfill directly with existing supply resources”.
In the memo, Hegseth also said that it put an end to 11 other contracts for “consulting services” which support “non-essential” activities, such as diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), climatic questions and the Pentagon COvid-19 answer.
Hegseth said dismissals “represent $ 5.1 billion in unnecessary spending” in DOD and would lead to almost $ 4 billion in savings.
The savings would be reassigned, said Hegseth, to serve “critical priorities to revive the ethics of warriors, rebuild the army and restore deterrence”.
He did not specify the Pentagon projects this money.
DOD representatives did not immediately respond to a comments from Business Insider.
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