By Bob Brewin
May 19, 2008
The Bush administration’s proposal to defend government networks against cyber attacks will cost $17 billion, nearly three times original estimates, and is so secret that it cuts the public out of the debate on the program, according to a Senate report.
Comment on this article in The Forum. The cost of the National Cyber security Initiative, a multi-agency effort to defend government information systems with strong defenses against cyber attacks, originally was pegged at $6 billion. Because of the increase in cost, the Senate Armed Services Committee recommended in a report that major elements of the project be scaled back “because policy and legal reviews are not complete and because the technology is not mature.”
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