Shawn McCarthy: DOD has more spending money than you might think in next year’s budget

The Department of Defense is seeing an increase in its projected IT spending for 2016 for the first time in 3 years. The increase is small at 1.6 percent but th...

The Department of Defense is seeing an increase in its projected IT spending for 2016 for the first time in 3 years. The increase is small at 1.6 percent, but that's an extra half a billion dollars. Shawn McCarthy is the research director at IDC Government Insights. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose where that half a billion could be going.

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