The state of Virginia garnered the lion's share of federal information technology dollars in fiscal year 1996 with a whopping $10.7
billion in contract obligations, almost double the amount it gleaned the previous fiscal year, according to a new analysis prepared by the market
research firm Input.
California took a distant second place with $5.6 billion in contract obligations, followed by Maryland with $4.3 billion, according to the geographic analysis of federal information technology spending by the Vienna, Va., firm.
Next up in the nation's hottest federal information technology regions are the District of Columbia ($2.8 billion) and Massachusetts ($2.7 billion), according to the Input analysis.
Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., accounted for about 38.6 percent of the spending, grabbing the most work performed on a state basis. This marks a slight increase from the fiscal year 1995 level of 31.5 percent, but it also is in keeping with a downward trend during the past several years for more work performance outside the region, said Norm Berthaut, Input's vice president.
Rounding out the top 10 are Texas, Florida, New Jersey, New York and Colorado, according to Input, which used data from the Federal Procurement Data Center maintained by the General Services Administration.
Agencies are required to report procurement data to GSA, including the amount the federal government has agreed to pay for a specified product or service. While these contract obligation numbers do not necessarily indicate the amount of money spent or the potential value of a contract, they do provide a useful snapshot of federal IT spending patterns.
According to Input, the leading agency spenders in fiscal 1996 were the Army with $9.7 billion in contract obligations, followed by the Navy ($9.3 billion) and Air Force ($8.5 billion). GSA ranked fourth in agency spending with $2.6 billion in contract obligations, a spike from the agency's fiscal 1995 level likely due in part to the agency's telecom spending on behalf of other agencies, according to Input.
The top 10 agencies did about 90 percent of the total spending, which is consistent with the previous year's findings, Berthaut said. The top agencies did 92 percent of the spending in fiscal 1995.
The top 10 states had 73 percent of the spending in this year's cycle. In fiscal year 1995, the top 10 states had 67 percent of the spending performed among them.
A breakdown of expenditures by types of companies showed that Virginia firms dominated all categories with the exception of nonprofits, which received more federal monies in Georgia. Large businesses, small businesses, 8(a) firms and small-disadvantaged companies in Virginia gleaned more than their counterparts in any other region, according to Input's geographic distribution breakdown shown in an accompanying chart.
States with strong spending on small businesses include New Jersey and Georgia; those with strong spending on 8(a)s include Ohio, New Jersey and Missouri. States with healthy spending on non-profits include Oklahoma, New Jersey and New Mexico. Leading states in the small disadvantaged spending arena are Virginia, Maryland, California and Massachusetts, closely mirroring those with large business spending totals.
A report of the high-technology industry prepared by the American Electronics Association, the nation's largest high-tech trade association, noted that computer makers, electronics companies and information technology firms tend to cluster to take advantage of pools of skilled workers and the collection of technology resources.
Joining the well-known areas of Silicon Valley, Massachusetts' Route 128 and North Carolina's Research Triangle in the last decade, the Cyberstates report said, are Northern Virginia's Silicon Dominion and the emergence of Utah and Idaho as high-tech centers.
Other leading high-tech regions to watch are the Silicon Hills of Austin and San Antonio, Texas; Seattle; the technology corridor of Redmond, Bellevue and Kirkland in Washington; and Oregon's Silicon Forest, the report said. n
Agency Top Place of Performance |
Department | State | Department | State |
Agriculture Air Force Army Commerce Defense Education Energy EPA FEMA GSA HHS
| Missouri California Virginia Virginia Virginia Maryland Louisiana District of Columbia Virginia Virginia Massachusetts
| HUD Interior Justice Labor NASA Navy State Transportation Treasury Veteran's Affairs
| Maryland Colorado District of Columbia District of Columbia Texas Virginia Virginia Virginia District of Columbia District of Columbia |
TOP STATE WORK LOCATIONS (Obligations in $K) |
VA CA MD DC MA TX FL NJ NY
| 10,762,386 5,604,527 4,361,506 2,818,554 2,713,206 2,243,808 2,086,430 1,216,675 1,158,458
| CO NC OR OH WA PA IN MO AL
| 1,106,710 964,106 962,324 907,987 769,439 728,718 720,641 644,967 609,067 | LA GA SC IL OK AZ NH NM MS
| 594,003 542,011 429,694 418,990 402,109 393,891 361,187 339,293 282,766
| CT MN IA NE NV SD MI KS RI
| 267,738 205,320 177,704 161,949 154,388 127,500 116,087 105,983 104,673 | WV HI UT KY AK WI ID ND AR
| 79,512 79,235 76,078 65,847 65,428 59,776 58,433 27,741 23,678
| MT DE VT ME VI WY PR AS GU
| 16,648 7,934 7,526 5,080 1,163 1,108 536 19 7
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TOP AGENCY SPENDERS |
Name | Obligations $K |
Army Navy AirForce GSA DOD HHS Energy Transportation NASA Treasury Justice Agency for Int'l Development Commerce State EPA Nat'l Consumer Cooperative Bank Education Agriculture Veteran's Affairs U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Civil Program Financing only) HUD Interior Labor FEMA United States Information Agency Nuclear Regulatory Commission Securities and Exchange Commission OPM Executive Office of the President National Science Foundation Smithsonian Institution Commodity Futures Trading Commission Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Trade and Development Program Federal Trade Commission National Labor Relations Board Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Peace Corps Railroad Retirement Board Federal Election Committee National Endowment for the Arts National Mediation Board Interstate Commerce Commission National Archives and Records Administration FCC Consumer Product Safety Commission United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Endowment for the Humanities Merit Systems Protection Board National Capital Planning Commission John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts International Trade Commission | 9,674,792 9,390,770 8,588,365 2,593,918 2,591,748 2,558,659 2,456,693 2,026,797 1,798,683 965,065 952,181 484,159 445,948 371,309 354,935 337,507 335,392 329,868 300,232 207,964 189,315 160,676 147,163 144,588 92,960 54,714 22,833 17,271 16,059 11,086 7,688 7,156 4,544 4,318 3,941 3,672 3,639 3,184 2,263 1,922 1,475 1,274 860 800 722 619 392 316 286 80 55 32
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Geographic Distribution of companies
Rank | Large Business | Small Business | 8(a) | Small Disadvantaged | NonProfit | All |
1. | Virginia | Virginia | Virginia | Virginia | Georgia | Virginia |
2. | California | Maryland | Maryland | Maryland | California | California |
3. | Maryland | California | Colorado | California | Texas | Maryland |
4. | Massachusetts | New Jersey | California | Massachusetts | Ohio | Massachusetts |
5. | New Jersey | Pennsylvania | Massachusetts | Colorado | Massachusetts | Texas |
6. | Florida | Georgia | Missouri | Florida | Oklahoma | New Jersey |
7. | Texas | Texas | New Jersey | Ohio | District of Columbia | Florida |
8. | New York | Massachusetts | Florida | District of Columbia | New Jersey | New York |
9. | District of Columbia | Florida | District of Columbia | New Jersey | New York | District of Columbia |
10. | Colorado | New York | Ohio | Missouri | New Mexico | Colorado |
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