Border Security Dominates DHS Technology Budget Request

(GovExec.com – Jill R. Aitoro)

Roughly half of the Homeland Security Department's $5.4 billion information technology budget will go to ongoing system development and modernization programs for border control and protection.

Cybersecurity funds largely will come from alternative sources, said DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, who described the budget as a whole as “strong and fiscally sound.”

DHS divided spending in its IT budget into four parts: IT investments by mission; IT infrastructure and office automation; enterprise architecture and planning; and grants management. The bulk of IT funds ($3.7 billion) were allocated to investments by mission.

Full story here. Remarks of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff regarding the budget for DHS are here.