The White House has proposed $79 billion in IT spending in 2015, 2.9 percent below 2014 and that decline will be almost entirely at DoD. The Administration has also announced it will continue its push to turn around or eliminate problematic IT projects through its PortfolioStat review process.
It says it wants to implement a more rigorous application of the review model, which employs data-driven reviews of agency IT portfolios led by OMB.
According to the White House, PortfolioStat assessments in 2012 and 2013 required agencies to collect and analyze baseline data on 13 common types of commodity IT investments, including infrastructure, business systems, and enterprise IT.
OMB worked with agencies to review this data and compare spending levels with other agencies and private-sector benchmarks, and since 2012 it said these reviews have helped agencies realize savings (of about $1.6 billion) through strategic sourcing, the optimization of data centers, the consolidation of multiple email systems, the migration of services to cloud platforms, and the reduction of duplicative mobile device and desktop contracts.