QUESTION
What is the technology budget shortfall and how is it being addressed?
2:12:12
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The technology budget has been low and efforts are being made to reallocate resources and enhance systems to address the shortfall.
- The department is enhancing its network infrastructure to meet current challenges.
- They are in talks with OMB to incorporate funding for infrastructure into the baseline budget.
Gale A. Brewer
2:12:12
I mentioned OTPS shortfall in technology.
2:12:15
Could you be more specific as to what the shortfall is because, obviously, in today's world, it's an incredibly important funding issue.
Motte Araf
2:12:28
Yeah.
2:12:28
So our technology budget has always been low and then as it's we mentioned, as I mentioned before, we always try to reallocate resources to fund that shortfall.
2:12:41
But because of the challenges that the department has been going for the past few years, we needed to enhance our systems and and spend a great deal of funding into the infrastructure of the network.
2:12:56
So all that now has to be added into the basin.
2:13:00
We are talking to OMB to at least try to make that portion part of the baseline.
Gale A. Brewer
2:13:07
Mister Cheah, I would suggest there'd be another issue to put on your list because they can't survive without most current technology.