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Senate Appropriators Trim NPPD’s Cyber Request Due To Tight Budgets, Hiring Lags

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Senate Appropriators Trim NPPD’s Cyber Request Due To Tight Budgets, Hiring Lags

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved an FY ’17 spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that includes $1 billion in cyber security funding for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), about $53 million less than requested due to lags in the ability to hire personnel for cyber operations and budget constraints.Still, the $1 billion recommendation is $186.2 million more than Congress enacted in FY ’16 and permits NPPD to begin to accelerate a federal network…

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