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.
1 Adding these other costs places defense spending around 5% GDP. 2  The DoD baseline budget, excluding supplemental funding for the wars, grew from $297 billion in FY2001 to a budgeted $534 billion for FY2010, an 81% increase. 3  According to the CBO, defense spending grew 9% annually on average from fiscal year 2000-2009.