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House Appropriators Make Small Cuts To DHS’ Cyber Budget, Remain Critical Of Info Sharing

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, June 18th, 2014

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The House Appropriations Committee’s markup of the Homeland Security FY’15 spending bill made only small cuts to requested cyber funds, but the appropriators remained critical of a major threat detection and information sharing program. Now in its third iteration, the National Cybersecurity Protection System (NCPS)–more commonly referred to as EINSTEIN 3–has fallen behind its acquisition schedule and left questions of efficacy, the committee wrote in a report attached to the bill. EINSTEIN 3 is a Department of Homeland Security-hosted program…

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