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What were these contracts for?

Networking or day to day software/application maintenance? I get they were probably bloated (I did work for a defense contractor at one point) but presumably they were doing something. I mean isn’t Deloitte a accounting firm?

I’m a little worried about the “stand down” attitude against cyber attacks.

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At least one contract appears to be for the air force's effort to move secure workloads to a multi-cloud environment. Based on publicly available slides, I think Accenture is acting as a middleman to avoid dependence on Azure or AWS technical support creating lock in to their clouds.

IMHO firing Accenture is probably a good move in this case. I bet they were extracting money at every opportunity just so the gov't could nominally avoid cloud vendor lock-in.

If you didn’t know all the accounting firms have massive IT consulting practices then do you really know about them?

I think Deloitte makes about half of their US revenue from various consulting projects.

https://www.projectworks.com/blog/2024-the-big-4s-revenue

with the current pattern by DOGE, I would say that it's likely they monitor grift and do audits of various departments. DOGE and Trump has been gutting many government oversight groups that are set up to prevent grift and fraud. I suspect 10 years down the road we'll find tons of grift under this administration after it's no longer in control

Week long meetings charging 300/hour etc

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