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May 1, 2013 By AMK

Sequester to blame for delay in DARPA’s Plan X cyber contracting plans

Sequestration is “quite corrosive” to projects underway at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, said its director, factoring into the decision to delay the highly touted Plan X that recruits private companies and universities to develop technologies to improve cyberwarfare capabilities.

The across-the-board cuts as a result of the 2011 Budget Control Act trimmed DARPA’s fiscal 2013 budget by $202 million, which translated to an 8 percent cut of all programs in its portfolio.

“We have about a dozen major program elements and each of those had to take this across-the-board cut,” said DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar during a press briefing on April 24, 2013.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/fedbiz_daily/2013/04/sequester-to-blame-for-delay-of.html

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: Budget Control Act, cybersecurity, DARPA, sequestration

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