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The bill centralizes cyber budgeting in USCYBERCOM to improve cyber readiness and transparency, trading off departmental control and raising risks of coordination gaps, duplication, and concentrated decision-making that could weaken accountability.
Military personnel and U.S. cyber forces will gain direct USCYBERCOM budget control to plan and sustain the Cyber Mission Force, improving readiness and enabling faster allocation of cyber resources.
Taxpayers and federal employees will see clearer, separate budget justification materials for USCYBERCOM in the President’s budget, increasing transparency of how cyber funds are requested and spent.
Reserve and active military personnel will benefit from formalized consultation on reserve-component funding, reducing intra-DoD conflict and better aligning active and reserve cyber capabilities.
Taxpayers and the public risk reduced civilian oversight as centralizing cyber budgeting authority at USCYBERCOM concentrates decision-making, potentially weakening accountability.
Taxpayers and military personnel may face duplication or gaps in funding for facilities and personnel support because separate USCYBERCOM budget lines could complicate coordination with military departments, increasing costs or causing shortfalls.
Federal employees and military services could lose some control over cyber resource priorities, creating interservice tension that may undermine joint force effectiveness.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Gives USCYBERCOM authority to plan, program, budget, and execute the Cyber Mission Force budget and requires separate CMF budget justification materials for the President’s budget, excluding pay and facility support.
Assigns responsibility for planning, programming, budgeting, and executing the Cyber Mission Force (CMF) budget to the Commander of U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), subject to the Principal Cyber Advisor. Requires USCYBERCOM to prepare a program objective memorandum, budget estimate, and separate budget justification materials for inclusion in the President’s budget while excluding military pay, allowances, and military-department facility support from that responsibility. It also requires pre-submission consultation with the military department Secretaries on reserve-component CMF funding and inclusion of any nonconcurrence views with budget proposals submitted to the Secretary of Defense.
Introduced July 31, 2025 by Marion Michael Rounds · Last progress July 31, 2025