DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff announced a proposed $5.4 Billion IT budget for 2009, the bulk of which ($3.7B) will go to mission investments that are no surprise.  However, he also indicated a big new source of technology funding for DHS -- the President's recently announced Cyber Initiative, which was consolidated under the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and will fund programs across the Federal Government.  As perhaps an indicator of what is coming, DHS' National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) received $293.5 million in funding for US-CERT's EINSTEIN system, which monitors traffic at the gates of Agency portals for suspicious activity.  According to last year's OMB-300 for Einstein, the anticipated BY2008 spending was only $14.2MM, so we have certainly found one area where the Cyber Initiative is pumping up the volume.  We will be looking for more.