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Increased spending in the proposed fiscal 2005 budget for departments such as the defense and security is good news for such government contractors as Unisys, which has a $1 billion contract for building the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) infrastructure. The budget allocated increased funding for aviation security, biodefense and state and local first response. The DHS is budgeted to receive more than $4.4 billion for information technology, up from $4.1 billion received in fiscal 2004. The TSA will receive $5.3 billion, up from $890 million in fiscal 2004. The increase reflects the government's prioritizing of information technology's importance in shoring up defense and homeland security. The NSF, Air Force, Commerce, Interior, U.S. Agency for International Development, Justice, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Smithsonian Institution were given bugger budgets. While information technology appeared to be a winner in the fiscal 2005 budget, there were as many as 621 IT projects worth $22 billion that were on a watch list because of a lack of performance measures, management, or IT security.
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