Trump FY 2018 Fed Budget Request Includes Funding Increases for Cyber Programs
President Donald Trump's FY 2018 federal budget request proposes funding increases to the U.S. Cyber Command and several departments’ cybersecurity programs, in contrast to proposed cuts to many agencies like the FCC (see 1705230041). The White House proposed $1.45 billion…
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for the Department of Homeland Security's National Protection and Programs Directorate, which handles DHS cybersecurity programs. That's below the $1.8 billion allotted to NPPD for FY 2017 under the April measure funding the government through Sept. 30 (see 1705010047). NPPD funding includes $721 million earmarked for the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program and other cybersecurity efforts. Trump's proposal would allocate $200 million to the State Department for combating cyberattacks and $5 million to department programs that will “help protect U.S. citizens and U.S. businesses from organized crime by strengthening national legal regimes to enable them to combat” IP theft, cybercrime and “related IT-enabled crimes.” The document would allocate $228 million to a proposed fund for modernizing federal IT systems to be created via the Modernizing Government Technology Act (HR-2227/S-990), which is “moving in parallel” with Trump’s budget request. The House passed HR-2227 last week on a voice vote (see 1705180046).