WASHINGTON – April 10, 2013. DOD’s budget allocates nearly $5 billion to cyberspace operations – up from less than $4 billion last year – in addition to $10 billion for space and $2.5 billion for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technologies. It also includes close to $66 billion for research, development, testing and evaluation; $12 billion for science and technology; and $3 billion for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a nearly 2 percent increase over fiscal 2012.
The Pentagon budget boosts cybersecurity with initiatives for cyber forces and U.S. Cyber Command, as well as information-sharing through the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Five, designed to connect cybersecurity centers and other cyber analytics electronically and in real time.
Other areas of cyber focus emphasized in the budget:
• Construction of the Joint Operations Center for USCYBERCOM at Ft. Meade, Md., scheduled to begin in 2014 and last through 2017;
• Development of tools to automate vulnerability detection on classified networks;
• Funding for commercial software for data monitoring of defense networks that will identify and isolate suspect files for analysis;
• Support for defensive cyberspace operations providing information assurance and cyber security to the defense networks at all levels;
• Enhancement of cyberspace range capabilities by increasing capacity, improving analysis, and mainstreaming and sustaining capabilities of the National Cyber Range developed by DARPA under the oversight of the DDOD’s Test Resource Management Center.
In some cases, such as cybersecurity research, investment grew by as much as triple over fiscal 2012, according to budget documents.
Source: FCW
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