Agencies should also give OMB plans for reinvesting between 5 and 10 percent of those funds in priority IT investments, according to Jason Miller’s story.
IT infrastructure, commodity systems and business systems should provide a majority share of the cuts with reductions in under-performing projects and low-priority investments also contributing, OMB said in a memo obtained by Miller.
Miller reports the federal government could see its IT budget go down $7.7 billion to $66.4 billion in 2014, representing the lowest IT budget since 2006.
Then, agencies received $63.5 billion in IT funding, Miller reports citing OMB documents.
With a five percent reinvestment, governmentwide IT spending would total $69 billion, according to the report.
For fiscal 2013, the White House requested a one percent reduction in IT spending.