Trump's State Department won't share plans with other agencies for a $20 million project to cooperate on cybersecurity because other agencies haven't shared with it
The State Department is not sharing its plans for a new $20 million cybersecurity bureau intended to coordinate between different agencies, federal auditors told Congress in a new report.
The State Department says it's not sharing its plans because other agencies didn't share their plans with State for their other projects.The Trump Administration's State Department has refused to share its plans for a new $20 million cybersecurity bureau to coordinate US efforts on cybersecurity because other agencies haven't shared with it, according to federal auditors.
"They hadn't even notified these other organizations," Brian Mazanec told Business Insider. Mazanec is director of International Affairs and Trade at the General Accounting Office. Big international tech deals are among the issues that are intended to be addressed by the new 80-person bureau, the GAO says.
Not so, says the State Department in a rebuttal to the report. State now believes that having this new office coordinate with other agencies is "redundant to what the Department already does."
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