MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — After spending six years and more than $18.5 million to modernize computer systems at the Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles, the state is scrapping the effort, officials announced Wednesday.

Top aides to Gov. Peter Shumlin said the state and computer giant Hewlett-Packard had agreed that HP would return $8.37 million to Vermont and that Vermont would return to the company all “physical and virtual rights to all software and documents created by HP” to build a system that has been in the works since 2006.