Major homeland security IT projects funding
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Congress afforded the Homeland Security Department broad authority to reallocate funds among programs. DHS officials are supposed to ask the appropriations committees for permission to reprogram funds, but frequently DHS has made funding changes before seeking congressional approval.
When it established the Homeland
Security Department Congress afforded the department unusually broad authority
to reallocate funds among programs. DHS officials are supposed to ask the
appropriations committees for permission to reprogram funds, but frequently in
the past the department has forged ahead with funding changes before seeking
congressional approval.
U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator program
Administration request:
$399.5 million
2007 appropriation: $362.5 million
Secure
Border Initiative's SBI.net
2007 appropriation: $1.2
billion, including technology, vehicle barriers and infrastructure
Cybersecurity
Funding
in Infrastructure and Information Security accounts for cybersecurity operations
Administration request:
$92.2 million
2007 appropriation: $92 million
Funding
in Science and Technology Directorate for cybersecurity research
Administration request: $22.7 million
Appropriated for 2007:
$20 million
CIO
Office
Administration request: $323.8
million
2007 appropriation: $349 million,
including $61 million for IT services, $89.3 million for security activities,
$86.4 million for wireless programs and $36.2 million for the Homeland Secure
Data Network
National
Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center
Administration request: $16 million
2007 appropriation: $25 million
Coast
Guard
Command,
Control Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
Administration request: $60.7
million
2007 appropriations: $50 million
Systems
engineering and integration
Administration request: $35.1
million
2007 appropriation: $35.1 million
Total, Integrated Deepwater
Systems
Administration request: $934.4
million
2007 appropriation: $1.1 billion
MAX-HR
human resources automation system
Administration request: $71.4
million
2007 appropriation: $25 million
Emerge2
enterprise resource management system project
Administration request: $18.9
million
2007 appropriation: zero
Customs
and Border Protection
Automated
Commercial Environment
Administration request: $318.5
million
2007 appropriation: $316.8 million
Customs-Trade
Partnership Against Terrorism, Free and Secure Trade, Nexus and Sentri
Administration request: $75.9
million
2007 appropriation: C-TPAT, $54.7
million; FAST, NEXUS and SENTRI, $11.2 million
Overall
DHS Budget
Administration request: $32.5
billion
2007 appropriation: $34.8 billion
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