{"id":921514,"date":"2025-04-12T08:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T02:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=921514"},"modified":"2025-04-12T08:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T03:08:22","slug":"pentagon-axes-5-1-bn-wasteful-it-deals-with-accenture-deloitte-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/12\/pentagon-axes-5-1-bn-wasteful-it-deals-with-accenture-deloitte-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon axes $5.1 bn &#8216;wasteful&#8217; IT deals with Accenture, Deloitte, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the termination of IT service contracts worth $5.1 billion, affecting major firms including Accenture and Deloitte. The move is part of a broader initiative to eliminate what the Pentagon deems \u2018wasteful spending\u2019, the US Department of Defence said on Friday (IST). <\/p>\n<p>Naming a few examples, Hegseth said, \u201c&#8230; for consulting services from Accenture, Deloitte, Booz Allen, and other firms. They&#8217;re going to save the department $1.8 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the termination of IT service contracts worth $5.1 billion, affecting major firms including Accenture and Deloitte. The move is part of a broader initiative to eliminate what the Pentagon deems \u2018wasteful spending\u2019, the US Department of Defence said on Friday (IST). Naming a few examples, Hegseth said, \u201c&#8230; for consulting services from Accenture, Deloitte, Booz Allen, and other firms. They&#8217;re going to save the department $1.8 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}