This is a summary of an already quite short memo, with a mention of DOGE glued on the end.

I trust no one else to take a broken system like DOD acquisitions and re-break it in a way that financially benefits loyal elements of the M-IC.

> The DOD's statement […] has a ring of DOGE to it. Musk's efficiency department has already saved billions across the US Government's various agencies, with the DOD already said to have saved a cumulative and not-insignificant sum of around $6 billion to date.

Why include this unprompted and uncritical parroting of Trump regime propaganda? Beside that the "savings" are undocumented at best and in many cases simply made-up [1], slashing important services is "savings" the same way that not changing your car's oil is "savings".

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/us/politics/doge-contract...

"Arrington also noted that the use of open source software "presents a significant and ongoing challenge," with a lack of visibility into the origins and security of software code particularly troubling."

What? This is like backwards. They went to pay more for proprietary software which they can't look at because being able to see the code makes it harder to know it's origins and security???