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Jan
18

Shutdown could make it harder to prevent cyberattacks

From: Federal Times

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As Congress looks likely to pass its fourth continuing resolution in five months, agencies will have a hard time procuring cybersecurity technologies through the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program and be forced to deal with shorter appropriations timetables.

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The 2018 fiscal year occurs from Oct. 1, 2017, to Sept. 30, 2018, meaning that, even should Congress pass a complete appropriations bill by Friday, Jan. 19, agencies will have just over eight months of funding to work with when procuring technology for their CDM programs.

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