Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Defense tech debated

BY Frank Tiboni

Published on March 04, 2005



Congress will scrutinize the Defense Department's $30.1 billion budget request for military information technology spending for fiscal 2006 by questioning redundancy in the services' warfighting IT systems.


DOD IT officials requested $7.4 billion for command, control, communications and computer systems next year — a $1 billion increase from what they received last year. Lawmakers think troops could better communicate and access intelligence in Iraq and Afghanistan if they consolidated them.

No comments: