GOP domestic policy bill includes hundreds of millions for military cyber

The tax and spending bill Congress sent to President Donald Trump and that he signed into law over the holiday weekend contains hundreds of millions of dollars for cybersecurity, with a heavy emphasis on military-related spending.

The biggest single pot of money under the bill would be for Cyber Command, a $250 million allocation for “artificial intelligence lines of effort.” Another $20 million would go to cybersecurity programs at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command — which counts among its geographical areas of responsibility territorial waters for cyber adversaries in Russia, China and North Korea — would get $1 million for cyber offensive operations. Cyber offense was something the second Trump administration emphasized when coming into office.

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