Posted on 04/05/2025 8:21:32 AM PDT by Libloather
The U.S. General Services Administration has saved $1 million by converting decades-old information storage technology, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said Friday.
In a post on X, DOGE said that the agency, which supplies office space, transportation and other basic services to federal agencies, saved money by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes to permanent modern digital records.
The move is part of the Elon Musk-led group's mission to get rid of wasteful government spending.
Earlier this week, the group said The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a month for website changes before canceling the contract and having an internal staffer take over.
While combing through loads and loads of data, DOGE discovered a previous contract by the VA for its website maintenance.
"Good work by @DeptVetAffairs," DOGE said in an X post on Wednesday. "VA was previously paying ~$380,000/month for minor website modifications. That contract has not been renewed, and the same work is now being executed by 1 internal VA software engineer spending ~10 hours/week."
GAS said on Thursday it will save $4.5 million by "optimizing leases & reducing our footprint" with less unused office space.
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$1 million does not sound like a lot of money in savings for all the efficiency that apparently occurred.
A million here, a million there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Most reporters - even those at FOX - don't understand math. Yes, one of these savings will save a million dollaars - many more will save millions of dollars a year EVERY YEAR.
This is the deep state corruption and incompetence of federal IT. It is endemic among the support service contractors and technically innocent CIOs and their SMEs who think that something like Signal is "secure."
DOGE people were probably the only ones who knew what to do with the tapes. They were lucky there were still data on them.
All in all, it seems good to me. I just hope I am right about this, realizing that a lot of info on tapes would deteriorate anyway.
Hat tip to Trump and Elon Musk MAGA.
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