The Hill News

Despite a ballooning federal debt and intense pressures on the federal budget, cyber security has become Washington’s new growth industry. The U.S. government has spent over $600 billion on information technology over the last decade, with a growing amount devoted to cyber security. 

In its new Pentagon budget request, the Obama administration designated $2.3 billion to strengthen Department of Defense cyber security operations, including activities of the Pentagon’s new Cyber Command! and half a billion dollars for new cyber technology research. These figures exclude growing spending on “black” cyber security activities, embedded within the approximately $80 billion annual intelligence budget.

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