NIST Budget Cuts End HAVA Work

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Budget cuts curtail NIST cybersecurity work, other programs

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0204/021304tdpm1.htm


" The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will have 
to curtail its work on cybersecurity, terminate all its work with a law 
designed to improve the elections process and go to month-to-month 
funding for manufacturing programs because of its $22 million budget 
cut in fiscal 2004, according to the agency's acting chief of staff."
...
 "We have terminated all our activities under the Help America Vote Act 
for lack of funding," Heyman said.
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