A erstwhile Department of Defense insider, Steve Simoni, says it's "no surprise" DOGE has set its sights connected the Pentagon for its adjacent bout of uncovering "waste, fraud and abuse," and predicted Monday that the Elon Musk-led radical volition uncover "all kinds of wasteful spending" successful the process.
"It's really sending shockwaves done the section close now," the Allen Control Systems CEO told FOX Business.
"When I was astatine the Department of Defense, we were spending $10,000 connected HDMI cables that were ‘ruggedized’ erstwhile we could person purchased them for $20 oregon $30 astatine Best Buy… We request to get much businesslike with our spending, due to the fact that there's a monolithic menace of drones that are proliferating connected the battlefield close now, and the caller administration, Secretary [Pete] Hegeth knows this."
Simoni, a erstwhile Navy atomic engineer, suggested discarded identified by DOGE could beryllium reallocated to modernize subject technology and hole for the battlefield of the future, peculiarly homing successful connected developments susceptible of taking retired drones.
China presently dominates the marketplace with its drone manufacturing, producing astir 90% of each the devices. Simoni identified it arsenic the "primary contented of our time," adding that what American consumers erstwhile thought of arsenic "toys" person since go "weapons of war."
"We're really precise susceptible close now, and we request to person solutions to beryllium capable to instrumentality these drone threats out," helium warned.
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In an X station connected Friday, DOGE announced that it held an archetypal gathering with the Defense Department arsenic it prepares to instrumentality its arguable cost-cutting measures to yet different realm of the national bureaucracy.
"Great kickoff with @DeptofDefense. Looking guardant to moving unneurotic to safely prevention payer dollars and destruct waste, fraud and abuse," DOGE wrote.
The $800 cardinal defence budget, similar different areas of exorbitant authorities spending, could soon spot immoderate abdominous trimmed arsenic DOGE roots retired definite areas and identifies ways to streamline different processes.
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FOX Business' Eric Revell contributed to this report.
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