FY2007 Budget Request
February/March 2006

President Bush’s Budget Request for FY2007 includes the following requests for Homeland Security:

• An increase of $50 million for the National PreparednessIntegration Program which provides funding to execute medical preparedness coordination, catastrophic planning,emergency communications improvements, and command and control alignment.
  
  
• An increase of $294.6 million for the Targeted CapabilityGrants Program for a total of $1.4 billion to further the department’s national preparedness goals.
  
  
• An increase of $29 million in funding will support FEMA’s initiative to Strengthen Operational Capability and reinforce essential support functions within its Readiness, Mitigation, Response, Recovery, and National Security programs.
  
  
• An increase of $5 million will fund FEMA’s Emergency Alert System (EAS) upgrade.
  
  
• An increase of $36.3 million for information security and infrastructure to support the IT Infrastructure Transformation Program (ITP).
  (www.dhs.gov)
  
  Read the budget briefing from the Department of Homeland Security.

In addition, the budget calls for the following provisions:

• $1.3 billion for HHS to continue providing assistance to States, localities and hospitals to upgrade public health capacity and $593 million to maintain a national stockpile of medicines and vaccines for use following an event.
  
  
• $838 million for Urban Area Security Initiative Grants
  
  
• $668 million in homeland security grants to states
  
  
• $293 million for Assistance to Firefighter Grants
  
  
• $116 million for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (HIT) to address barriers to the adoption of interoperable health information technology nationally
  
  
• $50 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to extend State contract work for HIT demonstrations and initiate an Ambulatory Patient Safety Program
  
  
• $2.3 billion for pandemic influenza preparedness
  (www.whitehouse.gov/omb)