Gregory Dawson: Tech improvements could save federal government $1T over next decade
Arizona State University Associate Professor Gregory Dawson said the federal government spends the majority of its IT budget on maintaining "obsolete systems."
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Now that trillion-dollar deficits seem like an unwelcome guest staying for too long, there is something the bureaucracy could do to help — even if the politicians do nothing. My next guest said technology improvements and reform could save $1 trillion over 10 years. Gregory Dawson is an associate professor of accounting at Arizona State University. He is co-author of the latest study from the IBM Center for the Business of Government, and he told Federal Drive with Tom Temin how that is possible.
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