$1 million does not sound like a lot of money in savings for all the efficiency that apparently occurred.
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.
Hat tip to Trump and Elon Musk MAGA.