Federal agencies are under intensifying pressure to modernize mission systems while budgets tighten and oversight expectations rise. Yet the spending mix still tilts heavily toward keeping the lights on: For fiscal year 2024, agencies planned to spend about 78% of IT funds on operations and maintenance of existing systems and just 22% on development and modernization, constraining investment in new capabilities, according to the Government Accountability Office.

Inside agencies, the financial and operational data needed to steer spending is scattered across finance, IT operations, and programs. Manual, spreadsheet-driven reconciliations slow budget formulation, create version-control churn, and erode confidence in the numbers, complicating audit readiness and delaying decisions.

Download this issue brief to learn how IBM Apptio helps agencies unify financial and operational data to improve forecasting, transparency, and audit readiness – and tie every dollar to mission value.