Analysis of US Informatization Expenditure Budget in 2012

Informationization is an important force to promote economic and social changes. Accelerating the development of informatization has become the common choice of all countries in the world.

Department of Defense projects account for the largest proportion

In 2012, the spending of U.S. government informatization will exceed 75 billion yuan, and the Ministry of Defense will remain the largest implementer with a budget ratio of more than 40%.

In 2012, the government’s spending on information technology will exceed US$75 billion. As in 2011, the largest government informatization project implementer in 2012 is still the U.S. Department of Defense, and its budget share in U.S. government informatization spending will exceed 40%.

From a budgetary point of view, compared with 2011, the first 10 government informatization projects in 2012 did not undergo major changes.

Reducing IT spending trends (the United States once reduced IT spending as one of the goals of IT reform) touched on nearly half of U.S. government agencies, but some ministries are still successfully expanding their informatization spending budgets. Major informationization projects implemented by ministries and agencies have not undergone major changes. In the next few years, the main investment in US IT budget will still flow into the construction of IT infrastructure.

Compared with 2011, the US Department of Defense informationization project budget was reduced by US$2.8 billion in 2012. Compared to the entire budget of the Department of Defense, the reduction ratio is less than 10%. This reduction did not have any impact on the Ministry of Defense’s continuing to maintain the status of the largest implementer of government informatization projects.

It is worth mentioning that in 2012, the Ministry of Defense will use the DISN (Defense Information System Network) project to ensure that American military personnel will achieve global communications. This will result in a slight "downsizing" and the budget will be reduced from the original 2.1 billion US dollars. To 2 billion U.S. dollars.

The Department of Defense’s second-largest informatization project is the NGEN (Next Generation Enterprise Network) project to update the Navy’s IT infrastructure. In 2011, the project plans to spend 1.9 billion U.S. dollars. In 2012, the budget for this project was reduced to 1.6 billion U.S. dollars. The expenditure on the naval military disease history data storage system increased from $302.3 million last year to $442.6 million.

Top 10 projects account for 87.6% of total expenditure

The budget for the top ten informatization projects will reach 65.9 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 87.6% of the total expenditure.

Five of the 10 projects that have been invested in the U.S. government informatization project have come from the Ministry of National Defense. It should be noted that these projects are long-term, and the financial allocation deadline is until 2012.

The two largest projects of the Department of Defense have already been mentioned in the previous section. One is the $2 billion DISN project and the other is the $1.6 billion Naval NGEN project. Teresa Takai, chief information officer of the Ministry of Defense, believes that if nothing else happens, the first project will be completed as planned. But according to ITdashboard. According to the data published on the gov website, the implementation date of the NGEN project will be delayed and the budget may be further improved.

The government information project with the third highest budget expenditure comes from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. In 2011, one-third of the total budget of the ministry was used to build Medical IT Support. In 2012, the budget for this information project was US$1.1 billion.

The fourth-largest government informatization project is the establishment of the infrastructure of the Ministry of Energy. Its annual budgeted expenditure is US$967.9 million, which includes both infrastructure and office automation in the communications field.

The estimated expenditures for the Warfighter Information Network project and the Joint Tactical Radio System project in 2012 were US$837.4 million and US$581.1 million, respectively, and these two large-scale information projects still come from the Department of Defense. Ranked eighth is the Department of Homeland Security’s border inspection IT infrastructure project, with an estimated budget of US$557.78 million. The ninth place is still the infrastructure modernization project from the Ministry of National Defense, with an estimated expenditure of 480.4 million U.S. dollars.

The tenth ranked U.S. government informatization project is from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The project budget expenditure is 4.6567 billion U.S. dollars, mainly involving the update of IT infrastructure.

Links <br> <br> British money in the procurement of IT services framework

Recently, the British government has issued a notice of an ICT service value of more than £1.5 billion. This £1.5 billion IT service framework is part of the UK's ICT strategy to reduce costs and improve procurement quality.

The British government previously stated through a public statement that they wanted to use more open software source code and hoped to hand over a lot of IT contracts to SMEs. The government also hopes to sign some smaller contracts to save money. This announcement indicates that the government is trying to establish a framework for application development, delivery, and service delivery on procurement services.

The framework agreement is worth between 15 million pounds and 1.5 billion pounds. This framework agreement covers enterprise resource management deployment, resources and procurement, financial management, human resources management, project and portfolio management, information management and business intelligence, data search and discovery, data integration tools, and data warehousing.