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February 2008

President’s Budget Request for FY 2009 IT
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PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST FOR FY09 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

The President's budget request for Fiscal Year 2009 included nearly $71 billion for information technology, with $33 billion earmarked for the Department of Defense and nearly $38 billion for civilian agencies. Comparing Budget Years 2008 and 2009, budget growth in civilian agencies is increasing more rapidly than defense (5% versus 2%).

Two Departments--Homeland Security and Health and Human Services--are slated to receive 29% of the IT allocation for civilian agencies. USAID, HUD, and the National Science Foundation had the greatest percentage gains from BY08 to BY09.  The largest dollar gainers between BY08 and BY09 were Defense Agencies ($507 million more), Commerce ($475 million more), and Veterans Affairs ($383 million more).

We have developed a budget change index: Reductions greater than 10% are shown in red, and increases greater than 10% are show in green. The first index column compares the 2008 to the 2007 request, and the second index column compares BY09 to the average annual outlay for BY06-BY08. Costs are in constant dollars and have not been adjusted for inflation.

Report on Information Technology (IT) Spending for the Federal
Government for Fiscal Years 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009
(dollars shown in millions)
February 2008

 

Actual

Final 

Enacted

Request 

One-Year Change

Multi-
Year

Agency

FY06

FY07

FY08

FY09

Index

Index

Department of Defense

 

 

 

 

 

 

Department of the Air Force

7,352

6,964

6,911

7,219

104

102

Department of the Army

9,972

6,701

7,718

7,766

101

96

Department of the Navy

6,360

7,744

7,090

6,969

98

99

Department of Defense Agencies

10,373

10,291

10,610

11,117

105

107

Department of Defense

34,056

31,699

32,328

33,071

102

101

Civilian Agencies

 

 

 

 

 

 

Department of Agriculture

1,835

2,111

2,318

2,413

104

116

Department of Commerce

1,613

1,673

1,789

2,264

127

134

Department of Education

442

555

587

593

101

112

Department of Energy

1,983

2,004

2,031

2,046

101

102

Department of Health and Human Services

5,426

5,490

5,664

5,757

102

104

Department of Homeland Security

3,812

4,599

5,363

5,407

101

118

Department of Housing and Urban Development

307

300

235

313

133

112

Department of the Interior

934

954

918

965

105

103

Department of Justice

2,368

2,507

2,505

2,669

107

108

Department of Labor

466

489

527

565

107

114

Department of State

825

817

933

1,045

112

122

U.S. Agency for International Development(USAID)

101

106

88

176

200

179

Department of Transportation

2,505

2,769

2,765

2,981

108

111

Department of the Treasury

2,717

2,673

2,933

3,074

105

111

Department of Veterans Affairs

1,700

1,735

2,151

2,534

118

136

Corps of Engineers

297

488

613

392

64

84

Environmental Protection Agency

489

478

433

445

103

95

General Services Administration

554

484

530

558

105

107

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

2,271

2,046

1,969

1,874

95

89

National Archives and Records Administration

96

118

125

136

109

120

National Science Foundation

46

49

63

83

132

158

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

104

123

126

155

123

132

Office of Management and Budget

 

4

4

4

100

100

Office of Personnel Management

137

89

104

99

95

90

Small Business Administration

80

78

91

89

98

107

Smithsonian Institution

56

61

62

66

106

111

Social Security Administration

995

1,056

1,060

1,139

107

110

Civilian Agencies

33,855

33,855

35,986

37,843

105

109

Total IT for the Federal Government

66,215

65,554

68,314

70,914

104

106

The actual budget may vary from the President's request, based on action by Congress.  Additional detail is available from OMB, including:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/sheets/itspending.xls.

 

OMB HAS SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

John Mitrisin, a consultant based in Bethesda, also alerted me to the useful information in OMB's supplemental tables, which are available at: 

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/pdf/spec_supp.pdf

Beginning on page 47 are the following tables in Part 9 of the supplement:

9. Integrating Services with Information Technology

9-1. Effectiveness of Agencies' IT Management and E-Gov Processes

9-2. Management Guidance

9-3. Management Watch List for FY 2008

9-4. High Risk IT Project List As of September 30, 2007

9-5. Agencies with IT Investments on the Management Watch List

9-6. FY 2009 Exhibit 300 Evaluation Criteria

9-7. Comparison of the Management Watch List by Fiscal Year

9-8. Number of Recurring Investments on the Management Watch List

9-9. Lines of Business (LoB) Update


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