The new federal fiscal year started Oct. 1 with an old problem: an unsettled annual budget. Political wrangling over the proposed budget for 2012 — estimated at nearly $3.5 trillion by the Obama administration — meant that stopgap funding bills were required just to keep the government running. Uncertainty over funding has become a way of life for federal agency managers. The management challenge has been compounded by congressionally mandated budget cuts. At the Office of E-Government and Information Technology, for example, funding was cut from $34 million in 2010 to $8 million in 2011.
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Congress Snips Away at E-Gov Development Funding
Posted by: John K. Higgins October 5, 2011 08:00 AMThe new federal fiscal year started Oct. 1 with an old problem: an unsettled annual budget. Political wrangling over the proposed budget for 2012 — estimated at nearly $3.5 trillion by the Obama administration — meant that stopgap funding bills were required just to keep the government running. Uncertainty over funding has become a way of life for federal agency managers. The management challenge has been compounded by congressionally mandated budget cuts. At the Office of E-Government and Information Technology, for example, funding was cut from $34 million in 2010 to $8 million in 2011.