White House Budget Offers Some Specifics on Cyber Policy
The White House’s FY2023 budget proposes an 11 percent increase to agency cybersecurity budgets, but a deeper dive into the spending blueprint reveals additional important takeaways:
- The administration expects CISA to grow by 276 full-time employees over the next year, from a base of about 2,464.
- Funding for R&D would fall off a little further to $4 million from $5 million in 2022.
- $8 million would go toward a Cybersecurity Advisory Committee, Cyber Safety Review Board, and Advisory Council Program Management Office, while $425 million would be allocated to the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program.
- The budget points to recent OMB directives on zero trust, software protection, and incident response, and notes that an additional $300 million in funding will go to the Technology Modernization Fund, which can be used for related projects.
- The budget suggests that the Federal Acquisition Security Council will have a central role on issuing exclusion orders and establishing standards for supply chain risk management.
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