Pentagon terminates delayed HR software project

Pacific studies axed in Pentagon research cuts

Steven Mana‘oakamai Johnson, a Cornell University professor who grew up on Saipan, has devoted his life to studying the ocean and how people in the Pacific depend on the fish in it to feed themselves and support their economies. Lately he’s been studying when they fight over them. He has been working on a Pentagon-funded project called “Future Fish Wars: Chasing Ocean Ecosystem Wealth,” for which the military awarded a grant in 2023. It was look…

Pentagon terminates delayed HR software project

: $280M of excess spending makes for a ripe - and reasonable - DOGE target

Instructed by DOGE, US Department of Defense to Cut $580 Million

On the 20 March, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo for the termination of multiple programs, contracts and grants amounting to $580 Million. The latest in a chain of cuts to the Department of Defense and the Executive Branch at large, this $580 cut comes just days after up to 60,000 civilian positions were cut from the Pentagon. Though Secretary Hegseth insists that the cuts would not affect national security. The biggest single item …

After a 780 percent overrun of the budget, the U.S. Department of Defense is halting a project to renew the civilian personnel administration. (Milit r, Politics)

Pentagon Axes HR System After 780% Budget Overrun

The Pentagon has canceled its troubled Defense Civilian Human Resources Management System after years of delays and budget overruns, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said. The project, launched in 2018 with a one-year timeline and $36 million budget, ultimately ran eight years and exceeded costs by $280 million, reaching 780% over budget. "We're not doing that anymore," Hegseth said in a video announcing the cancellation. Officials have 60 days to…