美国政府1986年财政年度在信息技术上的投资大于150亿美元。美国政府年信息收集活动工作量,可望达到19亿小时的量级,或者说相当于差不多一百万工作人年。 1980年,美国政府觉察,从三十年代开始美国就一直处于领先地位的信息技术,目前有落后的趋势,于是重新提出政府对信息资源管理问题。美国政府对信息资源管理提出以下一些 The U.S. government invested more than $ 15 billion in information technology in its fiscal year 1986. In the United States, The workload of the United States Government’s annual information gathering activities is expected to reach the magnitude of 1.9 billion hours, or the equivalent of almost one million working-year years. In 1980, the U.S. government realized that the information technology that the United States has been leading since the 1930s has a backward trend. Therefore, the government re-proposed the government’s management of information resources. The U.S. government has proposed the following for information resource management