President's budget includes 2.7 percent increase in IT spending

Federal Times: Government spending on information technology is set to grow by $2.3 billion in 2016 to $86.4 billion — a 2.7 percent increase — under the president's proposed budget released Monday.

Civilian agency IT spending makes up $49.1 billion of the request, with defense spending at $37.3 billion. Civilian IT spending is slated to increase by 2.5 percent, up $1.2 billion over 2015.

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