The article clearly says that it’s because they had a hiring freeze, is not like they just couldn’t hire enough people.
This is the MIC working as designed.
It is literally always cheaper for the government to hire people to do the job than it is to contract it out. If anyone in Congress or the White House actually cared about bringing down government spending, or about waste, fraud, and abuse, they’d take an axe to the contracting world. Bring jobs back to the public sector. You’d save money and the work would get done quicker and better. Plus, you can actually hold people accountable for mistakes, unlike contracting.
That’ll save some money.
No it will not
The value works out to roughly $244,000 per full-time-equivalent position per year over five years if the workforce stays at 500, though that figure includes Amentum’s overhead and profit as well as wages. The announcement does not say how many workers, or which depots beyond Red River, the contract will cover once it is fully staffed.
… obviously…