INDOPACOM Sends Congress $12B Unfunded Priorities List

INDOPACOM sends Congress $12B unfunded priorities list

U.S. Indo-Pacific Command has sent Congress an unfunded priorities list totaling nearly $12 billion, a slight increase above the amount it identified for lawmakers last year, according to documents obtained by Inside Defense. Adm. Samuel Paparo, the chief of INDOPACOM, told lawmakers in a recent letter that the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2026 budget request “assists in advancing” the command’s priorities. “However,” he wrote, “unless acc…

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 “One Big Beautiful Bill” would be for Cyber Command, a $250 million allocation for “artificial intelligence lines of effort.” Another $20 million would go to cybersecurity prog…

Pentagon Gets Millions For Cyber In GOP Reconciliation Act - Data Intelligence

U.S. military cyber spending—offensive and defensive capabilities, worker development, and more—will get a boost from the giant Republican policy-and-spending law signed over the weekend. The law establishes a $250 million pool for AI-related efforts at U.S. Cyber Command; a $90 million pool for cybersecurity support “for non-traditional contractors”; $20 million for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; and $1 million for offensive cyb…

DOD gets millions for cyber capabilities under GOP reconciliation package

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