Budget breakdown, agency by agency

How major IT projects fared by agency in 2006 request

Agriculture Department 
• The Service Center IT modernization-Common Computing Environment project to provide a single IT platform for all USDA county offices would receive $103.1 million.
• The department’s effort to establish its National Finance Center as a service center for the Human Resources Line of Business e-government initiative would receive $10.8 million.
• The National Animal ID System to help prevent and manage such outbreaks as mad cow disease would get $13 million.
• Geographic Information Systems to support the Farm Bureau program would get $39.1 million, up from $22.1 million.
• The Forest Service Computer Base would receive $121.8 million to maintain IT infrastructure, servers and PCs.
• The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service IT infrastructure would get $39.8 million for an integrated platform.

Commerce Department
• The Patent and Trademark Office Patent Automation System to develop an electronic process for patent applications would receive $80.1 million.
• The 2010 Decennial Census systems design and integration, testing and evaluation would get $93.9 million.
• IT consolidation in the CIO’s office would receive $389.6 million, up from $377.3 million.
• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Weather Service would receive $52.2 million for the Advanced Weather Interactive processing system.
• The Commerce Business System, the department’s newly implemented financial system, would receive $35.8 million.
Education Department
• The Central Processing System would see funding drop to $27.5 million from $31.3 million. The system processes student financial aid applications through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.
• The Virtual Data Center, a single computing environment for hosting federal student aid application systems, would get $59.6 million.
• The Front-End Business Integration project to integrate front-end student financial aid business processes would see its funding jump to $48.1 million from $20 million.
• The Financial Management Support System would receive $17.3 million.

Environmental Protection Agency
• The Financial Replacement System would see its funding jump to $24.7 million from $15.4 million.
• The Central Data Exchange, a single portal for all environmental data reporting to the agency, would get $11.3 million, up from $9.4 million
• The Enterprise Content Management System would get $14.3 million, up from $3.8 million.
• Technology Infrastructure Modernization would receive $216.8 million.

General Services Administration
• The USA Services Quicksilver project would receive $15.9 million to upgrade its customer relationship management system.
• FirstGov, the federal portal, would maintain its budget request from the previous year at $16.3 million. 
• GSA requested $266.4 million for its office automation, infrastructure and telecommunications systems, $32.5 million more than 2005.
• GSA also is asking for $56.9 million to upgrade its financial system in preparation to be a shared service provider in the financial management Line of Business Consolidation initiative.