What Will $5 Billion in Military Cyber Spending Pay For?

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http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/03/what-will-5-billion-military-cyber-spending-pay/79978/

By Patrick Tucker
Defenseone.com
March 5, 2014

The Pentagon's wants $5.1 billion for cyber operations next year, an 
increase of about $4 million over this year's budget, but exactly what the 
military wants to buy with that money is unclear.

"There's no set of program elements that led to this number. Maybe there 
needs to be, but right now there isn't," said outgoing comptroller Bob 
Hale, rolling out the Obama administration’s fiscal 2015 spending request 
at the Pentagon on Tuesday.

Budgeting for more cybersecurity makes sense to defense planners who argue 
the threat continues to grow. But how to spend that money is still very 
much up for debate at the Pentagon.

"The question isn't the funding side, but figuring out the proper roles 
and responsibilities, especially in how the line is better set between 
DOD, the rest of government and private responsibilities," said Peter 
Singer, director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence 
at the Brookings Institution. Though that’s not a new worry, either.

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