Posted on 03/26/2025 8:34:57 AM PDT by cgbg
After blowing deadlines and budgets for years, the Pentagon has finally pulled the plug on a troubled project to overhaul its outdated civilian HR IT systems.
Like many government projects before it, the US Defense Civilian Human Resources Management System (DCHRMS) promised big things when it was kicked off nearly a decade ago.
According to a memo [PDF] signed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth late last week, the program was intended to streamline a large portion of the DoD's legacy HR IT systems, but it's being axed after officials concluded pouring more funds into it would be "throwing more good taxpayer money after bad."
DCHRMS started in 2018 with a planned development timeline of one year and a budget of $36 million, "but instead it's taken eight years and is currently $280 million over budget - that's 780 percent over budget," Hegseth said in a video announcing the DCHRMS and other spending cuts. "We're not doing that anymore."
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Congrats to Hesgeth.
I miss the days of filing cabinets and ringed binders.
“that’s 780 percent over budget”
Those are California’s Train to nowhere type numbers. What are Greaseball Newsomes thoughts? FULL STEAM AHEAD!
COBOL...once you are in in, good luck trying to get out....
When you get into the spaghetti code in COBOL, it’s tough to figure out the logical processing.
I’m kinda curious if anyone knows. If a project is canceled like this is there any work product for all that money or is the money just gone?
Why civilians anyway?
Except for Civilian Defense Sec, no one who is not subject to UCMJ belongs in that building.
It is kinda like building a house on a faulty foundation—with no insurance and a broke general contractor.
It is a total loss.
It’s gone.
It’s always rosey projections by the salesmen that the managerial staff fall for. They need to always get a couple working grade peeps involved at kickoff. They can always tell if something is going to work as presented or if it’s a huge load of bull manure.
Seen it so many times when I was in DOD.
Wow. That sucks. Hard to believe there’s nothing to show for so much money.
This is not just about a building—the Pentagon is just the Headquarters for worldwide Department of Defense operations.
https://www.dodciviliancareers.com/whyworkfordod
There are currently 950,000 civilians—lots of room for cuts.
When you get into the spaghetti code in COBOL, it’s tough to figure out the logical processing.”
That’s because sometimes there wasn’t any. I did a lot of BASIC and it could do pretty much anything but you could have hundreds of lines of gibberish and it would still run fine with a simple GOTO statement.
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I was on a civilian project @ Aetna many years ago...by the time i got on the project, they were already 2 years into a conversion.
I was there when they pulled the plug and adiosed us...product was useless, so...money gone.
I’m guessing same here.
It’s like selling someone a dream and if you delay until they give up it’s free money.
This might be the original: https://insights.govforum.io/2020/11/press-release-leidos-awarded-contract-to-support-the-office-of-the-under-secretary-of-defense-for-personnel-and-readiness/
Obviously changed up since then!
After blowing deadlines and budgets for years, the Pentagon has finally pulled the plug on a troubled project to overhaul its outdated civilian HR IT systems.
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where is imran awan when you really need him?
heh.......whatever happened to that bunch?
So many government IT contractors corruptly, intentionally fail to deliver anything on time, knowing the stupid bureacrats would rather keep paying the cost overruns than find a differnent contractor.
Also, many of the contracts try to wholesale reinvent entire large systems, when, if broken down logically, they can often be updated to newer systems in stages.
Who’s the contractor? Are they booted from federal contracts for a decade? Was this all legal, and thus a likely crooked failure on the part of their procurement group, potentially subject to prosecution—or illegal on the part of the contractor, subject to prosecution?
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