Pentagon Terminates $5.1 Billion Worth of Consulting and IT Contracts

The Department of Defense (DOD) will cut $5.1 billion in consulting and IT contracts that Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth deemed are non-essential, according to an April 10 memo. In the memo, Hegseth ordered the DOD to cancel a Defense Health Agency contract with Accenture, Deloitte, and other companies for services that he said “can be performed by our civilian workforce.” Other contracts to be terminated include an Air Force contract with Accenture to resell third-party Enterprise Cloud IT Services, a Navy contract for business process consulting services, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s contract for IT help desk services. Those contracts, Hegseth said, represent “non-essential spending on third party consultants” for services that highly skilled DOD employees could perform using existing resources....