What the Federal Government Will Spend on Information Technology in 2008
President Bush's initial fiscal 2008 budget proposal would have increased total civilian agency and Defense department IT spending to $65.5 billion, a 2.6 percent increase compared with prop 
osed spending for fiscal 2007.
An updated FY 2008 budget was released by the Office of Management and Budget in late May, 2007. This new, more detailed plan actually boosts IT spending across all agencies to $66.5 billion.
Part of this increase is to make up for flat FY 2007 budgets. See the 2007 IT Budget page for details on why this occurred. History of the 2008 Federal IT budget
The Fiscal Year 2008 budget was submitted to Congress by the office of Management and Budget on February 5, 2007. Congress will makes it's adjustments and set priorities, and the budget should be approved sometimes before federal Fiscal Year 2008 starts at the end of September, 2007.
But this approval isn't always on time. In fact, the 2007 budget was never fully approved. The federal government is still operating under a continuing resolution which holds agency funding at the 2007 level. (Except for Defense and Homeland security.)
If the proposed budget numbers are approved (this was expected to happen by the end of September, 2007, but has not happened as of early November, 2007) then the full federal government will see an increase of about 2.6% over last year's official IT budget of $63.8 billion.
For 2008, that breaks out to:
* $34.1 billion for civilian agencies (a 3% increase)
* $31.3 billion for the defense department (a 2.1% increase) initially.
Most years there are also supplemental spending bills throughout the fiscal year. Even though some supplemental bills have been rolled up into the main bill this time, emergency and supplemental spending is always an option for Congress.
Full IT budgets for each of the major federal agencies are outlined below.
Agency FY 2008 Request % Change (07 - 08)
Department of Defense 31,360.0 2.1%
An updated FY 2008 budget was released by the Office of Management and Budget in late May, 2007. This new, more detailed plan actually boosts IT spending across all agencies to $66.5 billion.
Part of this increase is to make up for flat FY 2007 budgets. See the 2007 IT Budget page for details on why this occurred. History of the 2008 Federal IT budget
The Fiscal Year 2008 budget was submitted to Congress by the office of Management and Budget on February 5, 2007. Congress will makes it's adjustments and set priorities, and the budget should be approved sometimes before federal Fiscal Year 2008 starts at the end of September, 2007.
But this approval isn't always on time. In fact, the 2007 budget was never fully approved. The federal government is still operating under a continuing resolution which holds agency funding at the 2007 level. (Except for Defense and Homeland security.)
If the proposed budget numbers are approved (this was expected to happen by the end of September, 2007, but has not happened as of early November, 2007) then the full federal government will see an increase of about 2.6% over last year's official IT budget of $63.8 billion.
For 2008, that breaks out to:
* $34.1 billion for civilian agencies (a 3% increase)
* $31.3 billion for the defense department (a 2.1% increase) initially.
Most years there are also supplemental spending bills throughout the fiscal year. Even though some supplemental bills have been rolled up into the main bill this time, emergency and supplemental spending is always an option for Congress.
Full IT budgets for each of the major federal agencies are outlined below.
Agency FY 2008 Request % Change (07 - 08)
Department of Defense 31,360.0 2.1%
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