From: Roll Call
By Tim Starks
There are 11 different places in the Energy Department budget that contain cybersecurity funding for energy, science and environmental missions. That’s too messy for the Senate Appropriations Committee, which wants to see all of that nearly $150 million consolidated into one place.
DOE plays the lead federal role in securing the computer networks of the electricity grid, which, according to a recent study, is in grave danger and in need of seriously improved protection.
In the Senate panel’s fiscal 2015 Energy and Water spending bill, there’s a total of $304 million in cybersecurity funding for the Department of Energy, with $155 million going to the National Nuclear Security Administration and $149 million going to the energy/science/environmental missions.
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