Proposed 2008 IT Budget
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Introduction
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 proposed spending for fiscal 2007. However...
An updated FY 2008 budget was released by the Office of Management and Budget in late May, 2007. This new, more detailed plan actually proposed boosting 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. However...
Just as with FY2007, the fiscal year 2008 budget has not been fully approved. Budgets were enacted tof the Defense Department and the Homeland Security Department, but all other civilian agencies are operating under a continuing resolution the keeps the spending near their FY2006 levels.
We have budget numbers for all major federal agencies from 2004 to 2008. They are listed under each agency name (see the center column on our main page.
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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.)
Current Situation
Congressional Budget Office provides multiple details on how Congress develops and approves its annual budget.
Outlook For The Future
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