India, April 11 -- U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced an additional $5.1 billion worth of expenditure cuts in the Defense Department.
Hegseth on Thursday signed a memorandum announcing the spending cuts in wasteful Defense Department contracts.
"That's with a 'B'; $5.1 billion in DOD contracts for ancillary things like consulting and other nonessential services," Hegseth said while recording a video of the announcement from his office.
The memo lists some of the cuts, including $1.8 billion in consulting contracts the Defense Health Agency awarded to various private sector firms, a $1.4 billion enterprise cloud IT services contract awarded to a software reseller, and a $500 million Navy contract for business process consul...