Before this day is out
Just coming off the day after Labor Day
We can continue to rely on insurance companies for billions of dollars worth of payouts, every time a major weather catastrophe sweeps through
or,
we can adapt, just like all the other regions of the world
When the monsoon rains come through, the residents there did not wait until the day after the rains to figure out to build their houses on stilts
The spacesuits that our astronauts wear; do they wait until they accidentally get jolted by some high-energy beam that went awry, or, are they wearing gear at top of the line technology?
Instead of rebuilding houses with walls so thin that the house can be knocked down by a baseball that was hit after being swung at, let us consider a quality, the highest quality might be hard due to the quantity and number of houses involved, of housing structure materials, and architecture planning that is ready to withstand the 2 major weather weather conditions the USA has been suffering from over the last decade.
Wildfires and hurricanes
Technology exists, that houses can be made strong enough, and sealant proof enough, to withstand being underwater in high flooding for a while. We built boats, yachts, submarines, and many others, why not a basic house that can withstand the same?
After orders to evacuate, a houseowner, in the houses of the future, the not too distant at all future, should be able to return to their houses after the waters subsided, and the house and all its content on the inside is still in good shape.
Some of the houses and museums that when exposed to wildfire, do not necessarily have to go up in smoke as if they were paper houses on a display for color tissue paper display. The basic structure can still be standing, and protect most of the content on the inside. Perhaps repairs can be made in the aftermath, such a new paint job. Nothing is going to bring back all that was there of a museum over 100 years old.
This blog post project is just to bring up the subject, and obviously does not have much detail; time is important, and the priority level of this concern is near the forefront; the blog post is intended to be continued over the next few days; either as additions to this one, or in additional blog posts.
Showing posts with label budget. Show all posts
Showing posts with label budget. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
IP Address Systems Transitions: if You're not on Your Toes, could Waste Well Over $7 million a Day Just on Government Spending
"In mid-February, the White House proposed spending $2.3 billion on cybersecurity at the Defense Department in the release of its 2012 budget request."
http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2011/03/defense-funding-for-cybersecurity-is-hard-to-pin-down/48788/ [March 29, 2011]
The Defense Department is just one example. On a nationwide level, where some offices in less significant priority positions are still just now getting computers, there are computers and their connections to the Internet that is an immense proportion. Illustrating directly below:
FY 2013 spending budget in millions of dollars as put by Federal Information Technology FY 2013 Budget Priorities:
- Department, Agency, or Body; between $1,345.30 and $1,461.50, per each: SSA, NASA, Department of State
- Department, Agency, or Body; between $65.00 and $99.50, per each: Smithsonian Institution, OPM, Nat'l Science Foundation, NARA
- Department, Agency, or Body; between $111.60 and $151.40 per each: SBA, NRC, U.S. Agency for International Development
- Department, Agency, or Body; between $392.30 and $965.10 per each: GSA, Department of Education, department of Housing and urban Development, department of Labor, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, EPA,
- Department, Agency, or Body; $2033.00 and upward: Department of Agriculture, department of Commerce, DOE, DHHS, DHS, DOJ, DOT, Department of Veterans Affairs
How much is $2.3 billion dollars averaged out to per day? 2 billion for the year averaged on a per day is $5,479,452.05
the .3 billion is about $666666666.67 a year, and the daily average for the year is, $1,826,484.02
The total proposed of 2.3 billion, as long as the math is at least in the ballpark, is $7,305,936.07 a day
Each day, that over $7 million dollars is spent, if the money is not spent in the exact and correct way it should, when it could be directed to something else, can have a huge impact.
This might be a reason, why new IP addresses is important.
The IP address system is up for a change, closing in real soon, and real fast.
The older IP address system, that most people are used to on regular everday U.S. citizen jobs, can't take any more website addresses.
What happens/ what is the solution? A new system of IP addresses that can hold a whole bunch more than what the current can is being developed.
The repercussions, include, although some computers and computing systems will be still be able to adapt to the newer IP address system, they will not necessarily be designed for such; basically, all those old computers, even if they were purchased yesterday, are no good, defunct, obsolete, whichever word strikes you.
$7 million a day on cybersecurity: for each day of IT spending, let's hope it is the right moves, the emphasis here, is in consideration of IP address transitions.
Spelling it out, $7 million dollars worth of cybersecurity spending measures for something that the next day could turn out to be a wasted spend, is something that very well could be avoided.
Even if it is calculated down to the hour, the cost per the 2.3 billion proposition, is $304,414 an hour averaged. Take a 1 hour lunch break right when the transition of IP addresses occurred, or cybersecurity related stuff was being ordered, and by the time you come back to your office, if it was the wrong stuff, then in that one hour, over $300,000 of tax payers dollars was just wasted.
And,
"On March 23, officials amended that response and provided a higher total -- $3.2 billion -- to reflect the cost of information assurance "program elements" at individual agencies and services, plus activities typically not defined as information assurance that are critical to the military's overall cyber stance."
http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2011/03/defense-funding-for-cybersecurity-is-hard-to-pin-down/48788/
'Defense Funding for Cybersecurity is Hard to Pin Down'
And,
"Of the president’s $3.7 trillion 2012 budget proposal, Haney pointed out, only $1.2 trillion represents the discretionary budget, accounts from which IT funds are normally drawn. ...
...Despite the slow-down, federal IT spending to commercial contractors is expected to grow about 5 percent annually, according to Input, which sizes the 2010 federal IT market at about $86 billion."
http://gcn.com/articles/2011/04/20/input-2012-budget-analysis.aspx
'Federal IT spending to increase 5 percent, analyst says' [April 20, 2011]
To be added to this blog post soon:
- Cloud Computing Strategy
- About the IP change
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