Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Cyber winners in the fiscal 2013 budget

By Barry Rosenberg


Though Pentagon planners are committed to making some hard line-item choices in their budgets in the coming years, they got it right when it came to accelerating the funding for cyber defense in fiscal year 2014 so it at least can have a fighting chance of keeping pace with technical, IT developments in the commercial and consumer world.

“Cyber investments will grow in response to emerging threats in cyberspace,” the budget document states. “Teams of cyber experts—including defensive, intelligence and analytical—will defend the nation, as well as DOD infrastructure, by conducting reconnaissance, surveillance, development, maintenance and analysis.”

The U.S. Cyber Command will see a boost in funding, as will each of the military service’s various cyber commands. USCYBER will receive a newly built Joint Operations Center, construction of which should be finished in 2017.

Read full article here from Defense Systems

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