The Defense Department plans on spending $23.58 billion on information technology business systems during the current fiscal year, according to data from the deputy chief management officer.

According to a master list of DoD systems on the DCMO website that is valid as of Nov. 18, 2010, two Defense components each account for about a quarter of that projected amount: The Defense Information Systems Agency, which reported plans to spend $6.98 billion on business systems, and the Defense Logistics Agency, which reported plans to spend $6.76 billion.

Neither component has the greatest number of business systems, however--of the 1,247 systems with a reported budget of greater than $0, the Navy accounts for most. Specifically, the Navy reported planning on spending $1.34 billion on 404 separate systems. In all, the DCMO lists 2,320 business systems, but 1,073 of them are set to have no fiscal 2011 funds spent on them.

"Legacy" systems--systems designated for closure--account for about 30 percent of business systems with a budget and consume about 29 percent of the $23.85 billion in anticipated spending.

"Core" systems--system in developments or at the beginning of the acquisition process--account for nearly 50 percent of business systems with a budget and consume 65 percent of the $23.85 billion in anticipated spending.

"Interim" systems--systems slated to exist for just a limited period of time--account for 19 percent of business systems with a budget and consume about 6 percent of the total budget.

Two systems aren't classified according to current state--the DoD portion of the Virtual Electronic Lifetime Record, which the Defense Human Resource Activity reported it would spend $40 million on in the current fiscal year, and a Navy system called "plug and adapter," for which the Navy budgeted $18,000.

We ran a portion of the master list--the systems with a fiscal 2011 budget--through an interactive visualization to get a graphic sense of the relative spending on the systems. Below, for example, is a static snapshot showing the relative anticipated fiscal 2011 spending on business systems of DoD components.

For more:
- go to our interactive visualization
- go to the master list on the DCMO website

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