Government IT decision makers have become more optimistic about budget and hiring increases since the last IT Monitor. Overall, 35 percent of government IT decision makers expect their IT budgets to increase, up eight percentage points since the beginning of the year. Fifteen percent anticipate hiring additional IT staff, up four percentage points since the April IT Monitor.

Additional government findings from the June CDW IT Monitor include:

• More than three in four (77percent) of IT decision makers in the government sector expect to replace or install hardware in the next six months, up four percentage points since February 2010.
• Eighty-one percent of government IT decision makers plan to replace or install software in the second half of 2010, up five percentage points since June 2009.
• The percentage of IT decision makers in the government sector who feel that investment in IT infrastructure is beneficial to their employer’s efficiency increased by eight percentage points since the last IT Monitor to 76 percent.