The Homeland Security Dept. would get $625.5 million for infrastr...
The Homeland Security Dept. would get $625.5 million for infrastructure protection and information security (IPIS) work under a 2006 DHS appropriations bill agreed to by House and Senate conferees. Under the bill (HR-2360), set for House floor debate today…
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(Wed.), cybersecurity efforts would get $93.3 million, including $30 million to continue national cybersecurity exercises and outreach. Conferees strongly backed partnerships among federal, state, local agencies and the private sector that “demonstrate the ability to transfer technologies from federal laboratories and package them into tools, training and technical assistance to meet and enhance the demands of federal, state and local end users,” the conference report said. The proposal includes DHS’s budget request for U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team operations. The measure stipulates $142.6 million for National Security & Emergency Preparedness Telecom, $180.5 million for Critical Infrastructure programs, $83.3 million for Management & Administration would get $83.3 and $20 million for the National Infrastructure Simulation & Analysis Center. Biosurveillance efforts would receive $14 million. The other $91.4 million would go toward “protective actions.” Conferees moved IPIS programs from separate offices within DHS to the Preparedness Directorate, as Secy. Chertoff proposed in an agency-wide restructuring announced in July.