A Single Server Holds All Navy Pay and Promotion Data. DOGE Canceled a Contract to Upload It to the Cloud.

Mihaela Chircă

The Navy has been in a yearslong struggle to modernize its critically important human resources computer systems that underpin a whole host of vital tasks like pay and promotions. But a contract for what might have been one of the most promising efforts to upgrade the systems just fell victim to billionaire Elon Musk's cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, according to sources interviewed by Military.com. As a result, a critical and aging server in Tennessee that holds most