WASHINGTON--the White House is proposing a big increase cybersecurity research and development in next year's budget to improve, in part, its ability to reduce the threat of insider and ensure the security of control systems, such as those used in power plants.
In detail their proposal budget 2012 Monday, White House officials didn't mention WikiLeaks and releases of tens of thousands of documents military and diplomatic cables, or the ability of the worm Stuxnet of damage control Iran's nuclear. But the fingerprints of both these accidents on this budget proposal seemed clear enough.
Philip Coyle, associate director for national security, said the budget briefing Monday that the Administration is proposing "significant growth" in search of cybersecurity. When you add all the spending plans of cybersecurity across the Board, cybersecurity research and development spending will rise 35% 548 million next year, he said.
Stuxnet shows how a cyberattack could damage a system for monitoring critical outreach--in this case, Iran's centrifuges. But attacks on critical facilities in the United States has been a long-standing concern.
The Deptartment of Homeland Security last year teams formed to test Central weaknesses of cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity initiatives that are funded in this spending plan include new research programmes at the National Science Foundation (NSF), as well as research on a system of trusted identities. Daily cybersecurity spending, Federal agencies is not part of this research budget.
Research expenditure of cybersecurity is part of a research and development of the overall budget proposal for next year that includes increases across the Board for a wide range of research activity, including Robotics, climate change and the funding to expand the supply and the ability of teachers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Overall, the budget seeks 66.1 billion for basic research and applied in all areas, an increase of 11.6%. "That aims to develop solutions-innovative solutions for the many challenges we face," John Holdren, Science Advisor to top of Obama, said the budget briefing.
Peter Harsha, Director of Government Affairs at the Computing Research Association, wrote in a blog post that the White House's proposal "is essentially" dead on arrival ' regarding the home is concerned ".
But it's still important to have a good request of the President and agencies on records when we go to science agencies, "he wrote. CRA members include many universities as Stanford, Carnegie Mellon University and Harvard University, as well as Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and many other companies.
President Barack Obama has made the science and research of a high priority of funding and has repeatedly stated that the United States faces a new "Sputnik moment."
But the White House's budget faces Republican lawmakers in the House who have already brought over $ 2 billion in cuts to science budget this year.
Holdren said the budget briefing if they occur proposed cuts of Republican, "they would cripple our ability to innovate, to advance" at the budget briefing.
The White House proposed research will provide, among other things, 7.8 billion for the National Science Foundation, 13% that was approved this year. Office of Science, Department of energy would see 5.4 billion, an increase of 10.7%.
The federal budget proposal aims specifically to research new advanced manufacturing technologies, including manufacturing and nano-robotics.
The White House believes Robotics is "almost a tipping point in terms of usefulness and versatility" and launched a grant proposal to seek proposals last autumn robotic.
The Government is trying to develop "co-robots," "systems that can peacefully co-exist near or in physical contact with humans in the pursuit of worldly activities, dangerous, precise or expensive," according to the announcement of the grant.
Aneesh Chopra, the Government of the United States, CTO, Computerworld said that a number of agencies interested in robotics could play role in production and productivity that can bring.
"We are convinced that there is the possibility to take a new look and a more challenging Robotics", said Chopra. "We want to run the spectrum on Robotics--that which can offer innovations on current technologies which are applied in new and novel ways, as well as future capabilities that blocks are just yet unborn."
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