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.
How the US looks after its veterans. Chart 2.36: US Veterans Spending. At the start of the 20th century the US spent about 0.6 percent of GDP on its veterans. By the start of World War I veterans spending had declined to 0.5 percent of GDP and to 0.3 percent by the end of the war.ut 9/11, the terrorist attack on iconic US buildings in 2001, changed that, and defense spending began a substantial increase in two stages. First, it increased to 4.6 percent by 2005 for the invasion of Iraq, and then to 5.0 percent in 2008 for the the surge in Iraq.