The Ministry of Defense received a list of Doge officials in charge of reducing 8% compared to the budget next year. “We welcome the event in Pentagon,” said Peta Hegsetth Secretary. “And I hope to say hello to Elona Pentagon Very quickly. ”
Pentagon employs 3.7 million budget staff exceeding $ 850 billion but has I never went through an audit.
Tara Dougherty, Executive Director of Govini A Defense Software Company, worked for three former defense secretaries returning to Robert Gates. He says that the highest savings will be found in the overhaul of the decades of the old weapon acquisition process, which still uses manual budget tables and fax machines.
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Pentagon, headquarters of the Ministry of Defense – Photo file. (Dod Photo Master SGT. Ken Hammond, US Air Force.)
“I would have invested a big Red Bull on the process of managing weapons systems and military platforms,” Dougherty said in an interview with Fox News. “The defense acquisition process is massively broken … It is too slow. I mean, the United States issues the purchase of rockets through fax machines. Using budget tables and data calls to remove nuclear platforms from the production lines.”
As a result, the F-35 5. Generation of concealed aircraft cannot get out of the warehouse because they lack parts, and the defense industrial base in the US does not produce what they need. The intercontinental ballistic rocket of the next generation, the key part of the nuclear triad, is $ 35 billion compared to the budget. And the cost of a nuclear bomber of B-21 is rising behind the schedule.
“Many weapons and ship systems, jets, tanks and other opportunities that the department rely on for the military have such complex supply chains that the Ministry of Defense does not really know where all these parts come from. And since they use budget tables to manage programs as a whole means that it means that They do not have the ability to be foreign suppliers or in some cases, Chinese suppliers of critical components such as microelectronics in our military systems Trump administration They say it is no longer acceptable, and it will use that, “Dougherty said.
Pentagon employs 3.7 million staff with a budget of more than $ 850 billion. (Celal Gunes/Anadolo via Getty Images)
In order to cross the reach of the team, the Navy is considering cutting the fleet of the frigate, while The army is watching to save by removing outdated drones and excess vehicles.
Republican Senator Roger Wicker says it’s time.
“I, as one, as chairman of the Armed Forces Committee, welcome, Doga enters the Pentagon and help us reduce the bureaucracy, make the process of acquiring more effectively and spending our dollars better,” Wicker told Fox Maria Bartiromo.
But not everyone is happy that Doge comes to Pentagon where there are many classified systems and a lot of secret information that our opponents would like to get access.
“We have already seen that this reach, I call it the Government Department of inefficiency, provokes the reign of terrorism of chaos in the Federal Government,” Cong Eugene Vindman of Virginia for CNN. “Only this week they have published classified information about the US intelligence agency. They have access to the personal data of the US people, bank accounts and similar things that they honestly do not have. And so I have great, great concern about them entering the Ministry of Defense and sitting around, you know, internal systems i Now national security. “
The Department of the Efficiency of the Government (Doge) found that the code was connected to the US payment of the cash register with the subject of a budget line that was not required before, and makes almost $ 4.7 billion dollars of payment and left empty. (Musk: Reuters / Money: East / Trump: Getty)
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Doga’s concern will be rapidly moving to the detriment of national security materialized after taking out 2000 federal workers from the Ministry of Energy, including 350, many of which monitored the nuclear arsenal in the country. Many of these federal workers worked at the Pantex factory near Amarill in Texas, re -assembling nuclear fighting heads, one of the most sensitive jobs that requires the highest level of security approval.
The administration made her face last week and quickly tried to locate and revise the employees of the Ministry of Energy who monitored nuclear women.
On Veterans’ DepartmentThe agency announced the rejection of over 1000 employees, after Dog guidelines. Veterans’ employees joined Democratic legislators outside the DC headquarters to protest Doge’s docks last week.
