Lawmakers voted 32-17 to cut Obamaâs EINSTEIN budget proposal, pay raise-related amounts and personnel costs, Aliya Sternstein reports.
The allocation is slightly lower than President Barack Obamaâs $479.8 million fiscal 2016 budget request in February to roll out E3A, a new version of the EINSTEIN tool, according to the report.
E3A works to detect network intrusions, prevent attacks, scan emails and collect metadata, Nextgov reports.
Sternstein writes that AT&T, CenturyLink and Verizon are among the current providers of the tool and DHS plans to award a contract by the end of this year for a governmentwide deployment of E3A, the report says.