Adam Mazmanian writes the commerce, justice, science bill would allocate funding for DOJ to hire nine additional attorneys to oversee cyber crime prosecutions.
Lawmakers proposed $15 million to back private-public cyber initiatives at a Maryland center of excellence run by DOC’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, according to FCW.
Senate’s CJS appropriations blueprint also includes $16.5 million for the NIST’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace research project, Mazmanian writes.
FCW reports the National Science Foundation would get $159 million to launch cyber research grant programs and another $45 million to train new federal cyber professionals.
The bill also supports the Census Bureau‘s proposed migration to an enterprise data collection and processing system, according to Mazmanian’s article.