One Rosy IT Spending Outlook

If you want to feel better about the prospects for information technology spending, CompassIntelligence.com is the place you want to go. They say federal IT spending will hit nearly $100 billion by 2012. They also report that federal IT spending in 2008 increased 5.3 percent and they forecast 2009 spending will jump 5.5 percent again.

That's a rosier outlook compared to what other government market forecasters say, Input, for example, says the $100 million mark won't be approached until 2013. It spending will only increase an average 3.9 percent a year during that time, too.

Agencies are just beginning to work on fiscal 2011 budgets now. What are you hearing IT spending will be in your agency in 2010, 2011 and beyond?