Seeking cuts
Both the House and Senate versions of the Defense Authorization bill propose cuts to the agency's information technology spending.
Both the House and Senate versions of the Defense Authorization bill propose cuts to the agency's information technology spending. The House proposes cuts of $726 million, and the Senate version proposes a $200 million cut.
The following are where cuts will occur if the bill is passed.
House bill — $726 million
DOD-wide reductions — $274.7 million
$104.7 million from the Business Management Modernization Program.
$75.4 million from Horizontal Fusion, several initiatives for faster and easier access to information.
$50 million from IT readiness for health programs.
$17 million from Rapid Acquisition Incentives-Net Centricity, an effort to make data quickly and readily available across the department and government.
$12 million from chief information officer programs.
$9 million from the Standard Procurement System.
$6.6 million from the Office of the Secretary of Defense's IT programs.
Navy reductions — $172 million
$100 million from the Navy Converged Enterprise Resource Planning Program.
$27 million from Navy/Marine Corps base-level communications.
$28 million from other personnel and readiness efforts.
$15 million from Navy Air Logistics Data Analysis.
$2 million from Network Centric Collaborative Targeting.
Air Force reductions —$153.3 million
$66.4 million from the Combat Information Transport System.
$30.9 million from engineering and installations.
$27 million from the base-level communications infrastructure.
$20 million from the Air Force Pentagon Communications Agency.
$6.6 million from the Joint Network Management System.
$2.4 million from Air Force Military Personnel Data System.
Army reductions — $126 million
$20 million from Army Human Resources Command Core Automation Support.
$13 million from headquarters information management.
$13 million from Visual Information Support.
$13 million from Personnel Transportation.
$12.4 million from the IT Agency.
$10 million from the Military Entrance Process Command Management Information Reporting System.
$10 million from Installation Management Activity.
$9 million from Network Enterprise Technology Command.
$7 million from Army Personnel eRecords Management.
$4 million from Recruiting Information Support System.
$4 million from Army Knowledge Enterprise Architecture.
$3.5 million from Logistic Post Production Software Support.
$2.7 million from Logistics Modernization Program.
$2.2 million from the deputy chief of staff for information management and director of information management staff operations.
$2.2 million from Defense Civilian Personnel Data System-Sustainment.
Senate reductions — $200 million
DOD-wide reductions — $98.3 million
$60.2 million from Working Capital Fund Operations.
$14 million from health programs.
$10.5 million from research and development.
$8.9 million from other procurements.
$4.7 million from maintenance.
Army reductions — $40.6 million
$22.4 million from other procurements.
$18.2 million from research and development.
Navy reductions — $36.1 million
$20.9 million from other procurements.
$15.2 million from research and development.
Air Force reductions — $25 million
$13.5 million from other procurements.
$11.5 million from research and development.
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