BGOV IT Budget Breakdown: What to Watch

President Trump’s fiscal 2019 request asks for a federal IT budget of roughly $92 billion, a 4.5 percent increase above the projected FY 2018 figure.

Join BGOV analysts as they breakdown the budget for civilian IT and defense IT projects. We’ll also review spending by agencies and what’s ahead for cloud and cybersecurity programs.

Topics include:

• Winners & Losers: DOD to receive $6.2 billion in new IT funding, a 21 percent bump from FY 2017. The Departments of Transportation and Agriculture receive funding cuts of $408 million and $320 million, respectively.
• Cybersecurity: Trump’s FY 2019 budget sets aside $15 billion for unclassified cybersecurity programs, and potentially billions more in classified programs.
• Cloud: The Pentagon is set to release an RFP for its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract that could be worth $10 billion or more.