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Center for American Progress: Halting IT boondoggles

Is it easier to get a progressive bill past a Senate filibuster than it is to kill a failed government IT project?

Federal News Network Staff

June 30, 2010 2:42 pm

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It’s easier to get a progressive bill past a Senate filibuster than it is to kill a failed government IT project. At least, that’s the lesson of the last several years, according to the Center for American Progress. The only time failed information technology projects are killed, according to federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, is “when there are headlines” that embarrass the government. That could change {soon}. The Obama administration has announced the second phase of its multi-year effort to combat this problem, immediately halting $20 billion worth of federal IT projects and commencing detailed reviews of $15 billion worth of additional struggling projects. If these reviews succeed, they could eventually trim billions from the federal government’s $80 billion a year IT budget.

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