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Trump wants a 'cybersecurity moonshot' but cuts research
By Joseph Marks
March 29 at 7:25 AM
President Trump wants to find a grand solution to the nation’s cybersecurity challenges, one that will allow the nation to stop playing constant defense.
The idea behind his “cybersecurity moonshot” initiative, launched in 2017, was that the country's digital vulnerabilities present as dire a threat as the Soviet Union’s advantage in space did when the Sputnik satellite launched in 1957. But money talks: While the Trump administration is spending on today’s cybersecurity challenges, it’s not preparing for tomorrow’s.
The president’s budget request last week boosted overall cybersecurity spending by about 5 percent, including a whopping 10 percent hike for military cybersecurity. But most government offices that tackle emerging challenges in cybersecurity would see cuts to their research and development budgets under the plan.
The biggest cut — an incredible $219 million — is to the Homeland Security Department’s science and technology wing, which does much of the long-range research aimed at making technology fundamentally more secure. That budget, if it’s approved by Congress, would cut the division to slightly less than two-thirds of its 2019 funding.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cybersecurity-202/2019/03/29/the-cybersecurity-202-trump-wants-a-cybersecurity-moonshot-but-cuts-research/5c9d4b301b326b0f7f38f2b1/