leaping across the fiscal cliff

http://fedconnects.com/index.php/2012/12/innovative-it-solutions-can-save-money-for-government-and-reduce-the-federal-deficit/

I found this article interesting because I am also a political science major. But I found myself thinking about evaluative research because it runs into the same problem as the fiscal cliff: expense. Research is super expensive. And the research community is dealing with this through technology, how to stream line the process, and make it cheaper. Also with technology, they are making research as close to as effective as expensive, time consuming person-to-person research.