A TRILLION HERE, A TRILLION THERE

(Tom Galvin) Before he was a Senate Office Building, the Sen. Everett Dirksen’s uttered one of Washington’s most famous lines when he quipped that “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money.” He was talking about, how in Congress, big-ticket projects got tossed around like Frisbees.
 
Well, 50 years later, the price tag has jumped. We live in a world of $789 billion stimulus packages and $700 billion industry bailouts. The punch line is Government is spending a lot of money on what amounts to a credit card, and some day we have to pay it back.
 
That’s what makes today’s report by the Technology CEO Council so interesting. For once, the topic in Washington is how to save money, not spend it. TCC, a group of leading high-tech CEOs from IBM, Intel, Motorola, Dell, Micron, Applied Materials and EMC, published a report that spells out how the Federal Government can save $1 trillion over 10 years by modernizing government operations and making it more efficient. If you want details, you can see the report here - http://www.techceocouncil.org/reports/71-one-trillion-reasons.
 
The dirty secret of Washington is that while many industries have transformed themselves since the emergence of the Internet, government has always been late to the party. So, through a series of initiatives on green data centers, consolidation of government supply chains and digital records management, there is a lot of low-hanging fruit here. And let’s face it, we need it: we have $1.4 trillion in red ink this year alone.
 
The most constant refrain will be “haven’t we heard this song before?” And the answer is yes, of course. Vice President Gore led a major initiative in the early 1990s, for example. But keep in mind that was pre-Internet (i.e., the browser wasn’t introduced yet). Since then, we’ve seen an explosion of new technologies and applications. Just think what cloud computing will mean for the Federal Government in coming years. It makes you wonder if they remade “The Graduate” today whether Dustin Hoffman’s character would be told the future was “Cloud Computing” instead of “Plastics.” So, Government need pay attention.
 
This is also good timing. The Obama Deficit Commission will report back its finding in two months, and then Congress will grapple with next year’s budget, and deficit. Proposals like TCC are needed to figure out a way through the red ink – after all, a trillion here, a trillion there, and sooner or later you are talking about real money.
 
  

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