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Senate Appropriators Boost Defense Cyber Programs, Decrease Funding For Those Showing Slow Progress

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017

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Senate Appropriators Boost Defense Cyber Programs, Decrease Funding For Those Showing Slow Progress

The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) released its markup of a $651 billion defense bill for fiscal year 2018 on Tuesday and is requesting several defense cyber capabilities programs receive increased funding and called on projects showing slow progress to receive less funding than previously authorized in the White House’s budget request. . The committee’s explanatory statement on the bill details an additional $21 million toward Army development of cyber capabilities for security & intelligence activities and over $10 million more…

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