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.
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