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2025-08-14 Cyber

How the unraveling of two Pentagon projects may result in a costly do-over

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-14 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [176 views ] Top

#1 ......software projects that took 12 years and well over $800 million combined to develop, work initially aimed at overhauling antiquated human resources systems.

Ok, so where did the funding actually go ?

Posted by Besoeker 2025-08-14 02:22|| 2025-08-14 02:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Talk to RAFAEL.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-08-14 02:30|| 2025-08-14 02:30|| Front Page Top

#3 If it’s been in development for over a decade, how antiquated must it also be by now?

You betcha.

...aimed at overhauling antiquated human resources systems.

..which remains anchored in pre-20th Century social military mindset.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-08-14 07:57|| 2025-08-14 07:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Palantir in April won a $30 million contract from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to develop an operating system that identifies undocumented immigrants and tracks self-deportations, its largest single award from the agency among 46 federal contract actions since 2011.

A contract that will likely save billions of taxpayer dollars. Anything that assists Tom Homan's efforts is money well spend.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-08-14 08:06|| 2025-08-14 08:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Anything that assists

Trump admin unveils groundbreaking tool 'supercharging' gov't efficiency to 'win the race' for AI dominance

Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-14 10:24|| 2025-08-14 10:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Build, Secure, and Operationalize AI-Powered Applications

Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-14 10:27|| 2025-08-14 10:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Ok, so where did the funding actually go ?

"In 2019, Accenture said it had won a contract to expand an HR platform to modernize the payroll, absence management, and other HR functions for the Air Force with Oracle (ORCL.N) software.

The project, which includes other vendors and was later expanded to include Space Force, grew to cost $368 million"

Standard Accenture business model.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-14 10:31|| 2025-08-14 10:31|| Front Page Top

#8 If Accenture is involved, don't throw it away, send it to the incinerator.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-08-14 14:34|| 2025-08-14 14:34|| Front Page Top

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