When it comes to spending money on technology, we want to believe we are better at it, but apparently you do not work for the Government of the United States. It seems that after that the Government gets your tax check, they go to a frenzy of tech purchases much as we do when we get our income tax returns. Gizmodo went on an adventure to dig and with some good facts about how the Government is spending money on technology.
Of the information found in the Federal procurement data system, the Government spends money on consumer Tech. President Obama was quoted saying "when it comes to technology, we are like 30 years behind.". I imagine that everyone gets iPad, PS3, Xbox 360, except the President.
Phones BlackBerry of RIM took the top spot for technology dearly purchased by the Government over the past ten years. $ 117 million was spent for the acquisition of equipment and pay for the service, which is not too surprising given the preference of President Obama for the device. However, only $ 2.5 million was spent on iPhone devices (although $10.8 have been spent on iPods and iPads, $ 3.9 million).
In one case, about $exemplary taxpayer money was spent on consoles PlayStation 3 from Sony for the Air Force. Now is not just for fun, but I am sure that some of them have been used for the games; procurement to establish a supercomputer using the super-powerful console processor. Between 2001 and now, the Government has spent nearly a million dollars on the PS3 only; No wonder that my friend in Germany is having so much fun.
Kindle purchases that include books and everything related to this system, make up to $200,000 in the estimates. Corner, a system which has been overshadowed by the upper Amazon Kindle cost 12 K $. The most surprising of the expenditure in the budget are now for the Wii, honestly! Who's playing even the Wii?
Nevertheless, it is a good view of how the Government is spending money. I'm not too shocked by this report, and I complained about how they use our money for the wrong reasons. Probably a lot of these 360 and PS3 are not composing a supercomputer which the 360 could not do, even if he tried, will people who are fighting for our country and which is not bad.
