QUESTION
What is NYC Cyber Command’s budget, and how are the funds managed?
0:16:37
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NYC's Cyber Command has a $5.1 million budget, primarily expense-based, with certain acquisitions not shared with capital due to procurement guidelines.
- The $5.1 million budget may include acquisitions not capital eligible, necessitating expense-based funding.
- Cyber Command's capital eligibility for certain services is governed by controller directive 10, which has specific parameters for capitalizing assets.
- The technology landscape's evolution affects the way licenses and costs are structured, impacting capital procurement guidelines.
- The city often uses capital dollars for Cyber Command to replace expenses, abiding by legal procurement guidelines.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:16:37
And on Cyber Command, 5,100,000, is that the same?
Matthew Fraser
0:16:41
Yeah.
0:16:41
So Cyber Command is is is interesting because a lot of that is the same, but in some cases, it may not be.
0:16:48
A lot of the cybersecurity tools are not some of these things are cloud based and depending on how they procured some of them may not be capital eligible.
0:16:56
So in that cyber command, 5 point what's the what's the number?
Edwin Pemberton
0:17:01
So 5.1?
Matthew Fraser
0:17:02
Yeah.
0:17:02
So the $5,100,000, that may actually include the acquisition of products that we just couldn't share with capital.
0:17:08
So it's a good sense.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:17:09
Is it majority expense?
Matthew Fraser
0:17:11
Yes.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:17:11
Majority expense.
0:17:12
Okay.
0:17:13
And is there a particular reason?
0:17:18
With why the agency is using capital dollars to replace expense and not the other way around?
0:17:24
Like like you're doing with cyber command?
Matthew Fraser
0:17:26
Well, some some of the cyber command services.
0:17:29
When you look at its capital eligibility, it's determined by controller directory 10.
0:17:33
Mhmm.
0:17:34
And directive 10 has parameters that allows us to capitalize some assets and and others.
0:17:38
It won't as the technology landscape evolves, and technology evolves, the manufacturers of technology tend to shift licenses and the costs associated with those things and the things that are in the ways that are most profitable for them.
0:17:51
And that doesn't always align with the city's capital procurement guidelines.
0:17:54
So we we just have to stay within the letter of the law that we can.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:17:59
Okay.
0:17:59
And is this in in these buckets, is cyber command the only one that really utilizes this funding swapping this way?
Matthew Fraser
0:18:06
No.
0:18:06
I it really depends on the services that we're procuring, but the vast majority of services that are capital, we try to stay in that capital bucket unless something makes them capital even eligible.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
0:18:17
Okay.
0:18:18
Okay.