Senate Panel Cuts DARPA Funds, Recommends Cyber Plus-Up

By Jordana Mishory / July 3, 2013 at 2:49 PM
A Senate panel is recommending cutting $100 million from the Pentagon's advanced research arm while seeking to beef up funding for a subprogram designed to help dominate the cyber battlespace. In the report accompanying its fiscal year 2014 defense authorization bill, the Senate Armed Services Committee recommends cutting the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's $2.9 billion request, citing the current financial environment and "some lingering questions about the agency's ability to fully execute all its funding in a timely fashion,...

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