U.S. government agencies spend an overwhelming amount of their annual information technology budgets simply to maintain old and out-of-date systems. As a result, the amount of money available for investing in modernizing IT keeps shrinking, thus depriving vendors of major marketing opportunities at the federal level. The official federal IT budget has remained at about $82 billion per year for several years.
Source: Outdated Federal IT Gobbles Up Vendor Opportunities | Government | E-Commerce Times
Trump Promotes Technology Business Management for Federal IT Acquisitions | Government | E-Commerce Times
Vendors seeking to crack the largest single global customer for information technology — the U.S. government