Deep Spending Cuts for Agencies in the New Budget? -Part 2

May 11, 2017

deep spending cuts

The first part of this article showed you how the new spending bill affects Homeland Security, the EPA, and the IRS. This second part will show you more areas of the government that will see changes in their budgets.

Cybersecurity/IT

The office of the federal chief information officer gets close to $50 million with $33 million being for cyber security.

The Treasury Departments cybersecurity enhancement gets $47.7 million.

About $1.5 billion will go to the Defense Department for cyber security training. “The agreement fully funds the fiscal year 2017 base budget requirement of $6.7 billion for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Airforce, and the defense agencies cyberspace activities.”

The Energy Department will see $20 million to help with IT.

Homeland Security will see $286 million provided for the office of the chief information officer. However, this includes a $2.1 million cut to legacy information technology services.

OMB’s Information Technology Oversight and Reform (ITOR) fund is set to get $27 million under the spending bill.

The Transportation Department’s cybersecurity initiatives would be funded by $15 million.

The Office of Personnel Management

OPM will see a budget boost, $289.2 million, of $17.1 million over last year. More funding will go to OPM’s Retirement Services to handle retirement claims and answer annuitant calls and emails. They will receive $11 million to strengthen OPM’s legacy and Shell environment IT systems and “the modernization, migration, and testing of such systems”. OPM must submit reports to Congress detailing the full scope and cost of this IT project, and the agency’s IG must review the business case and comment on it.

A portion of OPM’s funding will go towards efforts to strengthen the agency’s acquisition workforce, “including recruitment, hiring, training, and retention of such workforce and information technology in support of acquisition workforce effectiveness of for management solutions to improve acquisition management.”

The Defense Department will receive $95 million to “develop, replace, and sustain” security and suitability background investigation IT systems for OPM’s National Background Investigative Bureau.

General Services Administration

The Federal Citizens Services Fund gets $55 million. This fund is the middleman between agencies and members of the public who are trying to obtain information or access public services through media. The GSA must spend no less than $2 million on the Unified Shares Services Management Office.

The Federal Buildings Fund will receive $8.8 billion and $200 million for the FBI headquarters consolidation project.

State Department

There are many cuts made to foreign aid, assistance, research and grant programs at the State Department.

“The act doesn’t include funding for any new, non-security positions unless specifically noted. The Secretary of State may fill existing positions that become vacant due to attrition, as needed.”

Diplomatic and consular programs will receive an additional $524.3 million this year. Educational and cultural exchange programs will get $43 million more this year.

 

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