Kinda amusing that the general sentiment so far, in a forum filled with technology expertise, is that there is certainly waste in these budgets. But, when discussing the overall trend of cutting programs in other fields where the majority doesn't have that expertise, the conclusion is the opposite.
Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte
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Re: Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte
#22What were these contracts for?
Networking or day to day software/application maintenance? I get they were probably bloated (I did work for a defense contractor at one point) but presumably they were doing something. I mean isn’t Deloitte a accounting firm?
I’m a little worried about the “stand down” attitude against cyber attacks.
Re: Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte
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#24Great, but it doesn’t matter too much as they’ll still vote in an increased budget that adds more debt. How about we raise taxes a bit and stop spending trillions of dollars that we don’t have each year.
Re: Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte
#25Good riddance, and hopefully they won't be missed. Here in Canada these consultants are just leeches who suck up all the tax dollars which could actually be used for something useful.
Same here in Australia. Over the last decade we’ve systematically reduced the number of civil servants and increased the number of consultants in government by many times. The result is we’ve ended up paying through the nose for worse government.
The big consulting firms are leeches on the public purse. They should be used as little as possible.
Re: Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte
#26Re: Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte
#27What were these contracts for? Networking or day to day software/application maintenance? I get they were probably bloated (I did work for a defense contractor at one point) but presumably they were doing something. I mean isn’t Deloitte a accounting firm? I’m a little worried about the “stand down” attitude against cyber attacks.
Week long meetings charging 300/hour etc
Re: Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte
#28Great, but it doesn’t matter too much as they’ll still vote in an increased budget that adds more debt. How about we raise taxes a bit and stop spending trillions of dollars that we don’t have each year.
I think taxes on imports just got raised a bit.
Re: Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte
#29On the face of it cutting huge IT govt contracts sounds like a good choice to reduce waste, but with this administration I'm expecting any savings to be funneled to Grok/xAI/Elon.
Which isn't ideal, but easily better than the pentagon that has literally never passed a full audit since they started auditing them in 2018. I'm a huge fan of musk's company's, but I don't want my public tax dollars ever choosing winners/losers
Re: Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte
#30Kinda amusing that the general sentiment so far, in a forum filled with technology expertise, is that there is certainly waste in these budgets. But, when discussing the overall trend of cutting programs in other fields where the majority doesn't have that expertise, the conclusion is the opposite.
I think part of it's probably that the military is the largest discretionary spending in the US, and it's not especially popular, unlike say NASA or the NPS.