Podcast: COGO Encourages Congressional Oversight of Geospatial
By Joe Francica and Adena Schutzberg
January 13, 2009
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| Congressional oversight and greater budget control will freeze geospatial investments across the Federal government for years while oversight tries to figure out what to do, and in the end will sharply reduce total spending since they will "eliminate overlaps" True, this may be an effort to "save" taxpayer money, but in reality it will result in crippled services. Federal budgets are segmented, competitive, antagonistic, and in the end duplicative only in the broadest sense...in practice they are tightly coupled to specific programs, end-user requirements, and legal mandates. Trying to standardize geospatial applications across the Federal community is, quite frankly, both impossible and impractical. I cannot understand why a commercial industrial advocacy group would desire such an outcome. |
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