The 2012 Federal IT budget request is $80.9 billion, with most federal IT spending requests slightly ahead of 2011 levels. Priorities include telework and mobile computing as well as cloud computing and virtualization. Yet, according to a recent federal IT budget briefing covered in Washington Technology magazine at the end of October, significant risks are associated with mobile computing and cloud-based applications. For that reason, cyber security will continue to top federal IT technology spending trends.
Commercial technology products are critical to achieving operating efficiencies and cost savings demanded by government agencies. Many opportunities still exist for IT manufacturers and their channel partners in all the many civilian and DoD initiatives focusing on cyber security.
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