NTIA would receive $45.6 million in FY 2013 under a...

President Barack Obama and the subcommittee’s Senate counterpart proposed (CD April 18 p11). But it’s the same as the FY 2012 enacted level for NTIA. The total bill for Commerce, Justice and Science was $51.1 billion, down $1.6 billion from the FY 2012 enacted level and $731 million below Obama’s request. It provides $7.7 billion total for the Commerce Department, $96 million more than the FY 2012 level. The FY 2013 appropriations bill places a “greater focus” on cybersecurity, said the House subcommittee’s Chairman Frank Wolf, R-Va. “It includes a significant focus on expanding the FBI’s cyber-security efforts and on protecting U.S. networks from foreign espionage and cyber-attacks,” he said. The bill provides funding for cybersecurity research and development. The National Institute of Standards and Technology would receive $830 million, $4 million more than the Senate proposal and $79 million more than the FY 2012 level. The National Science Foundation got $7.3 billion, which is $299 million more than the FY 2012 level but $41 million below Obama’s request. Also Thursday, the full Senate Appropriations Committee voted 28-1 to approve the Commerce bill approved by its subcommittee Tuesday"This bill makes our country safer and economy stronger by investing in cybersecurity, cyber workforce development and cyber jobs,” said Chair Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science. “Investments in the 2013 CJS spending bill will help create jobs in cybersecurity that will never leave this country.” The bill next moves to the Senate floor, but no date for consideration has been set.