What Are the Priorities for the U.S. Administration Cybersecurity Spending in 2026?
The White House has laid out a road map on how executive departments and agencies should plan to spend their cybersecurity dollars in the coming years. On 10 July 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memorandum outlining the administration’s cybersecurity investment priorities. The memo intends to guide relevant government entities as they prepare their 2026 budget submissions to the OMB.
The U.S. government is taking a page out of its own National Cybersecurity Strategy (NCS) playbook, wrapping its investment priorities around five pillars to improve the country’s cybersecurity posture, namely: