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Congress Trims FY ’17 OBIM Budget to Account for Hart Delays

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, May 16th, 2017

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President Donald Trump earlier this month signed an FY ’17 budget bill that Congress sent him that provides $235.5 million to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) office that manages the department’s authoritative biometric database, $11.6 million below the requested amount due to delays in the program for a new database and contract savings.The omnibus appropriations act also fences $20 million of the funds for the Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) until DHS provides congressional appropriators on how the…

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