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Tech Goodies On Budget Day
Most of America knows early February as the time for Groundhog Day. But folks inside the Beltway celebrate something else this time of year: Budget Day, when presidents traditionally release their budget priorities for the next fiscal year.
This week, the Bush administration unveiled a fiscal 2008 budget request that is chock-full of technology-related initiatives.
The Homeland Security Department would get more money for border surveillance and tracking foreign visitors. The Justice Department's budget includes money for countering terrorism, analyzing data breaches and helping collect digital evidence. And the health information superhighway would be injected with a 93 percent funding boost.
President Bush did revive his longstanding requests to cut funding for some tech programs, however. They include the Advanced Technology Program, manufacturing extension partnerships with the private sector, and tech-based community learning centers.
The rest of the podcast covers subjects like caller-identification "spoofing," e-voting and e-waste.
Posted by Technology Daily on February 9, 2007 11:10 AM | Permalink
