DOGE-Led Audit To Put 400,000 Pentagon Contracts Under Scrutiny 

Pentagon spokesperson Kingsley Wilson recently told reporters that a small team from the Department of Government Efficiency is moving quickly and continuing to influence major bureaucratic reforms.

“DOGE work at the department is not going to stop — that is absolutely for certain,” Wilson recently told reporters.

Even though other DOGE teams at various federal agencies have already been wound down or have completed their missions, cutting waste and fraud in the Department of Defense is paramount to overhauling that agency, which commands an annual budget of $850 billion.

New details from Bloomberg suggest that the DoD DOGE team will review more than 400,000 open contracts and grants for “additional savings” in fiscal 2026 and later. The goal is simple: identify waste, cut costs, and redirect “savings” into other programs via congressional approval. 

The DOGE.gov database indicates about 600 canceled or adjusted defense contracts, totaling more than $20 billion in claimed savings. 

A Pentagon spokesperson told Bloomberg that DoD’s DOGE team has trimmed “over $15 billion in total contract spending to date.” 

“Reforming the antiquated defense acquisition processes is a long-recognized problem that has received bipartisan support, and we are taking swift action to fix it at the President’s direction,” Wilson told Bloomberg.

The Pentagon views DOGE as a multi-year, multi-layered strategy aimed at reforming defense acquisitions, which have long been criticized as bloated and inefficient. 

Do we need to explain more? 

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By the way, we’ve pointed out how the Pentagon is shifting its priorities, including the defense firms Goldman says investors should own on the pivot.

DOGE’s contract cancellations at the DoD spurred Goldman analyst Noah Poponak to “reiterate our cautious view of the Gov’t IT & Services sector, and are Sell rated on BAH, CACI, SAIC, and VVX; Neutral on LDOS and AMTM; Buy rated on PSN.” 

Washington-based American Enterprise Institute analyst Todd Harrison pointed out, “The only way they will be able to get through reviewing 400,000 contracts over the next year is to use some sort of automated generic algorithm.”

“A thoughtful review of each contract, the work it supports, and the alternatives available would require hours or days of work for each individual contract, and DOGE is not staffed for that,” Harrison said. 

Wonder if DOGE DoD team will call up ‘Big Balls’ for this task…