Chris Liddell, the president’s director of strategic initiatives, thinks the federal government may be spending as much as $200 billion on IT each year — far more than is generally acknowledged. Better data and metrics, he argued at a July 20 White House event, is critical to bringing down that spend.
“We think there’s a huge amount of money to be saved,” Liddell said at the White House Summit on Technology Business Management. “The fact that we don’t have the right information … is one of the biggest issues that we face.”