Tight budgets prompt IT cutbacks

Anticipated budget cuts are prompting agencies to cancel or defer planned information technology projects, share and outsource more IT functions, and make more trade-offs in plotting their IT investments. It isn't clear how proposed and future cuts under the debt ceiling plan will affect federal IT. Most of those cuts will come in 2013 and later years, said former Virginia congressman Tom Davis, now director of federal government affairs at Deloitte & Touche LLP. "The good news is that they [agencies] will be able to reinvent themselves," Davis said. But some cuts are under way.