Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth decided to reverse course on the idea to privatize the process that moves service members’ household goods.

Instead, he directed officials to improve the current program, which will remain in place for at least three years, according to an advisory sent Wednesday to the military services and personal property shipping offices, as well as companies previously approved to move troops and families under the “tender of service” program, the DOD’s legacy system for managing moves.

During the next three years, officials will modernize the program into a “government-controlled software solution” and complete an ongoing market study by research economists of commercial moving and storage rates, the advisory says.

The work will include validating rates for fairness

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