Highlights from the Energy FY 2025 Information Technology Budget

Energy IT budget indicates steady growth through FY 2025

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued the FY 2025 budget request in March including the Information Technology (IT) requests for the Department of Energy and other civilian agencies. The OMB also publishes a corresponding annual IT budget/portfolio on the Federal IT Dashboard.

This article provides a glimpse to the Department’s IT spending trends and plans for FY 2025.

Energy FY 2025 IT Budget

Energy’s FY 2025 $5.5B IT budget accounts for 11% of the agency’s overall $51B Discretionary Budget. This 2.3% increase over FY 2024 continues steady growth over the past five years with an overall 76% increase since FY 2021.

The Department’s FY 2025 IT request include a historic $1.9B investment for critical and emerging technologies such as biotechnology and biomanufacturing, quantum information sciences, exascale high-speed computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning. The agency also requests $8.6B for the Office of Science support to the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act grant programs and $971M for cybersecurity.

Access the full report here.

Source: Highlights from the Energy FY 2025 Information Technology Budget. GovWin IQ.

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