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VA's IT budget would increase under House and Senate bills
The House and Senate committees would fund VA IT systems at the same level as the White House budget request .
House and Senate appropriators reject National Preparedness Grant Program proposal
House lawmakers have been skeptical from the start of the NPGP proposal, while administration officials have argued that grant consolidation would result in better coordination of preparedness efforts.
House appropriators move to reduce defense nonproliferation funding
If the NNSA "is unable to contain the escalating costs of the ongoing MOX project, funding for other priorities, such as the uranium enrichment project, will be severely limited," House appropriators warn.
Senate, House differ on NOAA satellite programs
Senators also chide NOAA for cutting down on JPSS sensors, noting that the original plan for 13 has gone down to five. "NOAA is running out of sensors and satellites to cut, and at this rate JPSS-1 will launch in 2017 with an empty spacecraft bus," a Senate report states.
NIST poised to get more money in fiscal 2013
Under the House version, NIST would receive $830.17 million, while under the Senate, it would receive the somewhat less amount of $826 million.
Sequestration would affect FBI 'for many years,' says Mueller
Approximately 60 percent of the FBI's $8 billion budget is now dedicated to national security programs, FBI Director Robert Mueller told a March 15 Senate panel. The FBI fiscal 2013 budget request is
Napolitano favors Lieberman-Collins cybersecurity bill
Although two main Senate cybersecurity bills jockey for attention in that chamber, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano endorsed just one while testifying March 8 before a congressional
Congress says no to ERAM upgrade funding
A "minibus" funding bill signed into law Nov. 18 by President Obama will make a number of cuts in this fiscal year to the Federal Aviation Administration's NextGen air traffic control...
DHS: Stennis data center required $77 million in facility upgrades
In consolidating its data centers down to just two, the Homeland Security has had to spend $77 million to enhance the infrastructure of its facility located at the NASA Stennis Space Center, Miss.,...
Senate appropriators say funding NextGen requires infrastructure cuts
Funding the Federal Aviation Administration's NextGen air traffic modernization effort in the coming fiscal year requires sacrifices in other areas of capital investment, says the Senate
