Oracle, Leidos Contract Targeted by US Pentagon Cost-Cutters (2)

The US Department of Defense said it will terminate a plan to use Oracle Corp. software to manage its civilian workforce as part of the Pentagon’s cost-cutting efforts.

“This program was intended to streamline a significant portion of the department’s legacy human resources information technology stack — an important mission we still need to achieve,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a memo released last week. More spending on the project “would be throwing more good taxpayer money after bad,” he said.

In 2019, Oracle said its cloud HR software was selected by the Defense Department for management of the ...