IT consolidation and efficiency efforts within the Air Force are part of the service\'s contribution to Defense Secretary Robert Gates\' efficiency initiative, ...
By Jared Serbu
Reporter
Federal News Radio
Consolidation of hardware and software systems will reduce the Air Force’s IT costs by 25 percent, the service’s head said Wednesday.
Air Force Secretary Mike Donley told a breakfast meeting sponsored by the Air Force Association in Arlington, Va., that he intends to shrink five-year IT costs by $1.2 billion.
“There are significant initiatives underway within the department to consolidate data centers and do our computer networking and cyber work more efficiently,” Donley said. “The Air Force embarked on this a couple of years ago. We recognized the need to get a more centralized approach underway on IT. This was a theme as we were putting together the 24th Air Force. It is now a theme across the department, so we think there are some opportunities for some significant savings.”
The 24th Air Force serves as the service’s cyber command.
The IT savings are part of a $34 billion dollar package of efficiencies that the Air Force identified in response to Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ directive to the military branches to come up with a collective $100 billion in savings. The savings will largely be reinvested into the individual services, Gates said when he announced an overview of the budget reprioritizations last week.
Among some of the other specifics Donley revealed Wednesday:
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