$4.6 million for operating and maintaining the hardware and software for the network • $7.7 million in capital investment cost (mostly network hardware/software) associated with • $2.6 million in capital investment and operations costs (mostly application software) for Given these major cost components GAO's fiscal year 1995 network budget request totals $14.9 million. Additional funding of $12.2 million in fiscal year 1996 would be needed to complete the network and application deployment. Because GAO's fiscal years 1995 and 1996 estimates assume network capability will evolve, the estimates for network expenditures in those years include an increasing share of what are currently stand-alone costs. The following is a summary of the major cost components over the three year period. |