ABSTRACT
Today, Washington spends about $79 billion on information technology each year,3 an increase of approximately four-fifths during the 2000s,4 and federal spending for information technology is projected to grow by more than 5 percent annually.5 No other single organization in the United States, and likely the world, spends more money on computers than does the U.S. government.6 State and local governments spend more than $50 billion each year on information technology, an amount that is rising by about 4 percent annually.7
