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Army to slash most IT applications
The U.S. Army will end 80 percent of its IT application systems by 2007, its chief information officer said.Lt. Gen. Steve Botuelle, Chief Information Officer of the U.S. Army, told the AFCEA Technology Showcase conference, also known as the Army's Directors of Information Management/Army Knowledge Management (DOIM/AKM) conference, in Fort Lauderdale Tuesday that he would submit a consolidation plan to senior service officials within two months and before the end of October. According to a report in Federal Computer Weekly, Boutelle said that Lt. Gen. Jerry Sinn, the Army's budget director, planned to cut the number of different IT applications he operated from 200 to three. Boutelle said he would eliminate redundancy in the Army's IT operations by "following the golden rule of government: identify unnecessary applications and cut their funding," FCW.com reported. Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-08-26 |
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