re: Hegseth putting the kibosh on 8A (DEI) contracts in the military. (Waste, fraud and abuse)

I learned about this way back in 1994. Navy Hospital Corpsman assigned to order shite for our hospital. Zero training at that point on supply orders and acquisition. I was given a very quick and basic instruction on how to find the suppliers of the products and what paperwork to fill out. A couple of days later I was called over to supply and told I'd have to re-do everything. That's when I learned that I couldn't order based on price. If the same item cost twice as much, but the company was woman or minority owned, I had to order from them first.

We've been wasting a lot of taxpayer money for a very long time.

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So now contracts will go mainly to the big boys

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The "big boys" are doing the work anyway on these pass-through BS contracts. Hopefully the contracts will go to competent people regardless of what color their skin is or what's between their legs.

I doubt this saves any money. Just rigs the bid in favor of the bigger contractors. Hegseth isn't looking out for the "little guy" in this instance.

Military-Industrial complex is a self-licking lollipop, basically high paid welfare. It produces numerous jobs for post-retirement senior military officers and high ranking civil servants & does the same for the local job market where industrial facilities are located. Producing hardware & software that assist the military in its operational mission is often a secondary outcome. You often see this in the Congressional budgetary process...keeping dysfunctional programs funded, directing the procurement of equipment not requested by the Services because it maintains jobs in a district, allocating 10--12% of the DoD budget to non-defense activities.

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Was he the most qualified person for the job?

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List the qualifications, libtard