This Week in Waste highlights how taxpayer dollars are being wasted and efforts to fight back against this waste. 

A Trump administration executive order would streamline defense procurement and prioritize existing private sector products.

The Department of Government Efficiency would have many opportunities to trim waste at the Department of Defense.

DOD and DOGE are now looking at software licensing, which is one area that CAGW has noted needs closer scrutiny. 

The F-35’s software development is plagued by underperformance and delays, raising serious concerns about the JSF’s reliability.

The Navy wasted nearly half of the money spent on modernizing seven cruisers; members of Congress are also to blame.

For the seventh straight year, the Pentagon failed its financial review.

The Pentagon’s tactical aircraft have woeful readiness rates across the board, including its newest aircraft, the F-35.

Disagreements between the Pentagon and the House of Representatives over the number of F-35s to be purchased will drive up costs.

Title V of H.R. 8371 would slow deployments and improvements to the VA electronic health record management system.