Mntsnow
02-04-2004, 7:12 AM
The Bush administration hopes to trim about $140 million from the Agriculture Department's fiscal 2005 budget for information technology, while continuing to keep IT money flowing to USDA's consolidated service centers project.
The president's IT budget request for USDA was $1.76 billion, a 7 percent cut compared with last year's $1.9 billion request. USDA's discretionary spending budget as a whole was cut about 8 percent.
If it stands, the IT budget cut is unlikely to stymie the USDA's field-office consolidation program, known as the Service Center Modernization program, which will receive about $136.7 million
Read more (http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0202/web-usda-02-03-04.asp)
The president's IT budget request for USDA was $1.76 billion, a 7 percent cut compared with last year's $1.9 billion request. USDA's discretionary spending budget as a whole was cut about 8 percent.
If it stands, the IT budget cut is unlikely to stymie the USDA's field-office consolidation program, known as the Service Center Modernization program, which will receive about $136.7 million
Read more (http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0202/web-usda-02-03-04.asp)