Pentagon to shake up "outdated" software procurement—declares war on open source

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

&quot;Arrington also noted that the use of open source software &quot;presents a significant and ongoing challenge,&quot; with a lack of visibility into the origins and security of software code particularly troubling.&quot;<p>What? This is like backwards. They went to pay more for proprietary software which they can&#x27;t look at because being able to see the code makes it harder to know it&#x27;s origins and security???

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.

&gt; The DOD&#x27;s statement […] has a ring of DOGE to it. Musk&#x27;s efficiency department has already saved billions across the US Government&#x27;s various agencies, with the DOD already said to have saved a cumulative and not-insignificant sum of around $6 billion to date.<p>Why include this unprompted and uncritical parroting of Trump regime propaganda? Beside that the &quot;savings&quot; are undocumented at best and in many cases simply made-up [1], slashing important services is &quot;savings&quot; the same way that not changing your car&#x27;s oil is &quot;savings&quot;.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;04&#x2F;13&#x2F;us&#x2F;politics&#x2F;doge-contracts-savings.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;04&#x2F;13&#x2F;us&#x2F;politics&#x2F;doge-contract...</a>