Over the past three days, federal agencies have terminated and descoped 55 “wasteful” contracts with a ceiling value of $1.6 billion, resulting in savings of $542 million, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said in a Jan. 2 post on X.
The canceled contracts include a $47 million State Department contract for “Africa/Djibouti, Somalia armored personnel carriers and Somalia National Army crew,” DOGE said.
Another contract, valued at $19.5 million, was awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for supporting an IT project at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
A $151,000 Department of War education services contract for “Director’s Development Program in Leadership—Partnership course to be held at Northwestern University” was terminated as well….