Bipartisan House trio requests $12 million increase for DHS continuous monitoring program

Lawmakers from the House homeland, oversight and armed services committees are asking appropriators to allocate $237 million for the Department of Homeland Security's threat-detecting Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program and other cyber missions in the fiscal year 2019 DHS budget -- an increase of $12 million over enacted fiscal 2018 levels.

House Homeland Security cybersecurity and infrastructure protection subcommittee Chairman John Ratcliffe (R-TX), Oversight and Government Reform information technology subcommittee Chairman Will Hurd (R-TX), and House Armed Services emerging threats...