White House allocates $9.8B to cybersecurity in 2022 budget request

Photo © lucky-photographer on Getty Images / iStockphoto. Article by Billy Mitchell. FedScoop – May 27, 2021.

Just over two months after receiving roughly $2 billion in emergency funding for tech and cybersecurity modernization, the Biden administration wants more money from Congress to build on those investments.

The White House has asked for $500 million to be added to the federal government’s Technology Modernization Fund and $9.8 billion to go specifically toward civilian cybersecurity programs across the government — up from about $8.7 billion for fiscal 2021 — according to its fiscal 2022 budget request released Friday. […]

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