Steve Watkins writes the intelligence community accounted for about $1.87 billion of the increase, or 16 percent of the total costs.
The classified information systems protection and maintenance category represented $4.4 billion of that spending while security management, oversight and planning cost nearly $2.2 billion, Federal Times reports.
Industry also used up $1.07 billion in 2013, down 11 percent from the previous year, according to the report.