A successful software asset management (SAM) system can. help organizations inventory and assess the state of installed. software across their IT systems, providing accurate, timely. information about the current state of the software installed, authorized and used on the computing devices that access.
In 2015, U.S. defense spending will be about $600 billion, or about 3.24 percent of GDP. The former figure would strike many Americans as sufficient, and a few would find it excessive.
0053_defense-comparison-full.gif. We currently spend more on defense than the next 7 countries combined. Defense spending accounts for almost 20 percent of all federal spending â nearly as much as Social Security, or the combined spending for Medicare and Medicaid. The sheer size of the defense budget suggests that it should be part of any serious effort to address America's long-term fiscal challenges.