Why does the Big Gummint spend $81.9 BILLION ANNUALLY for computers?

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Carl Malamud recently, at the 2010 Gov 2.0 Summit, called out here the sloppy way our Government agencies have been, and are, wasting money and time in the ways that they buy information technology infrastructure (think - computers, data lines and the like).

The text of his speech is available here.
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