The U.S. government has largely failed to achieve the same productivity gains that private sector firms have experienced from utilizing IT — despite spending $600 billion on information technology over the last decade or so. As a result, the federal Office of Management and Budget has initiated a new program to improve the way federal agencies acquire and manage IT resources. OMB rolled out the plan last week at a forum attended by government agency chief information officers and representatives from private sector IT firms.
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OMB Proposes Federal IT Procurement Makeover
Posted by: John K. Higgins December 13, 2010 12:51 PMThe U.S. government has largely failed to achieve the same productivity gains that private sector firms have experienced from utilizing IT — despite spending $600 billion on information technology over the last decade or so. As a result, the federal Office of Management and Budget has initiated a new program to improve the way federal agencies acquire and manage IT resources. OMB rolled out the plan last week at a forum attended by government agency chief information officers and representatives from private sector IT firms.