Tight budgets prompt IT cutbacks

Anticipated budget cuts are prompting agencies to cancel or defer planned information research projects, share and outsource more IT functions, and make more trade-offs in plotting their IT investments.

• And the U.S. Agency for International Development is shifting dollars away from hiring contractor help and toward hiring and training federal employees in hopes that will reduce costs to field new research services.

The services as well will consolidate data centers

The services as well will consolidate data centers, increase their use of cloud computing and require purchases of commercially available software.

Vice Adm. Kendall Card, deputy chief of naval operations for information dominance, has been tapped as the authority responsible for approving all IT purchases for the Navy. Brig. Gen. Kevin Nally, director of command, control, communications and computers for the Marine Corps, is his counterpart.

James Craft, deputy director of the Marine Corps' Command, Control, Communications and Computers directorate, said the service is "already a lean force."