The Agriculture Department would see a slight funding increase for its IT programs under President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2012 budget proposal.
Members of the House Appropriations Committee have introduced a continuing resolution that would reduce spending for the rest of this fiscal year by $100 billion compared with the president’s budget request.
The Obama administration is taking on several programs to keep IT projects in line with its goals as it introduces its fiscal 2012 budget proposal.
The White House included the already-enacted two-year pay freeze for federal civilian employees in its fiscal 2012 budget request but rebuffed calls to extend it to three years.
The Justice Department requests increases for financial investigations and counterterrorism while reducing some IT programs.
The administration's 2012 budget proposal would boost DOT's funding by 66 percent over 2010, with a lot of money targeted for infrastructure improvements. The FAA's staellite-based NextGen air traffic control system also would see an increase.
With a bipartisan drive toward cost cutting, expect lean times ahead.
The 2012 budget is expected to be lean, and details of some of the proposed cuts are beginning to emerge.
President Barack Obama highlighted the across-the-board spending cuts recommended by the fiscal commission in his State of the Union address, although he said he didn’t agree with all of the commission’s proposals.