“The Veterans Affairs Department spends more than $4 billion a year on information technology. But the details of that spend were limited. VA could say how much it was spending on the cloud or for application development, but couldn’t compare itself to public or private sector benchmarks.”
“Ryan Woodward, the Director of the Franchise Budget Office for Infrastructure Operations in the Office of Information and Technology at VA, said that all changed in the last year. By applying Technology Business Management (TBM) standards, VA now understands its IT spending two or three levels down and is driving better decisions and cost savings.”
“Ryan Woodward is the Director of the Franchise Budget Office for Infrastructure Operations in the Office of Information and Technology at VA.”
“We went from having basic cost data related to call centers or budget object codes or congressional projects to now having data about specific services we are providing, for example, compute, storage and networking. We are able to describe that in much more detail,” Woodward said on…” Listen to the podcast here.
Source: VA’s CFO, CIO collaboration opens the aperture of the value of $4B in IT spending – By Jason Miller, January 16, 2020. Federal News Network.
