Cybersecurity, E-Verify are big winners in DHS budget

Federal Computer Week

6/9/2009

The E-Verify program would be extended for two years and cybersecurity would get a boost under the fiscal 2010 Homeland Security Department spending bill approved by a House subcommittee.

On June 8, the House Appropriations Committee’s Homeland Security Subcommittee allocated $42.6 billion in discretionary funds for the department, said Rep. David Price (D-N.C.), the subcommittee’s chairman.

The departmental total for fiscal 2010 is 6.5 percent above last year’s enacted amount and about 1 percent below the administration’s request, he added.

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