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February 14, 2012 |
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Obama Spares IT...
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| The President’s budget for FY13 is over 200 dizzying pages of numbers and charts, including 79 mentions of the word “technology.” We turned to experts (who read budget documents for fun) to help us figure out if that’s a good thing. |
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| Information Technology and Innovation Foundation president Rob Atkinson scoured the document looking for R&D spending and was happy to find increased budgets for NSF, the Energy Department and NIST. Cybersecurity was also a big winner with $3.2B for DOD cybersecurity; $57M for cybersecurity research, and $110M for other IT-related research for critical infrastructure. The budget also includes $5M for IP enforcement worldwide, which is a clue that the government will seriously crack down on digital piracy, says ITIF senior analyst Daniel Castro. |
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| Yesterday wasn't as bad a day as TechAmerica SVP Trey Hodgkins thought it would be. The President’s budget wasn't as painful for the IT industry as many thought, cutting spending by 1 percent. That means agencies will still spend nearly $80B on IT. The majority of the cuts hit defense, which lost $1.4B from what it got last year. IT dollars will go toward data center consolidation, cloud migration, and IT modernization and refresh. “IT is still expected to remain central to the government mission,” says Trey. “The government spend for IT is flat and for our sector that’s good news.” |
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| IT industry consultant Larry Allen says we won’t see a completed budget for another year. The administration’s budget is a wish list and it won’t look close to the version released this week. The President’s spending priorities on infrastructure and social programs make up some of the Democratic platform for the year, Larry tells us. Historically the president’s budget retains about 75-80 percent of its IT wish list. But this year could be less. The only IT priorities Congress will likely leave untouched are cybersecurity and data center consolidation. “In some ways, the President’s budget might be the best of what IT could expect,” Larry says. |
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| One place you still see paper and pencil is on the high school soccer field. (Or soccer pitch, for your annoying friends.) But UK software company, Statzpack, is trying to change that. Sidwell Friends in DC recently started using the company’s software to record via iPhone, iPad, or Android soccer plays from its varsity team. The numbers are crunched by the software to track player minutes and reveal how coaches can improve player performance. The company has been seeing huge interest from other US soccer teams and leagues, including the Atlantic Soccer League. Statzpack CEO Mark Roberts says he may have to establish a US HQ in order to meet customer demand. He’s also planning on tweaking the software for similar sports like field hockey and lacrosse. |
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