Cuts reflect emphasize on government-focused research

Cuts reflect emphasize on government-focused research:

Extract:
" Among information technology research programs that would see a bump in funding(my emphasis) next year are:

Biometrics, which will receive an additional $2 million to enhance the use of fingerprints, facial recognition and iris scans for identification of individuals at border crossings. This would build on current NIST efforts to test and advance the reliability of recognition techniques. Goals would include enabling facial recognition for border security, expanding the accuracy testing program for multimodal biometric systems, developing tests and guidelines for biometric interoperability, and enabling simultaneous use of facial recognition, fingerprint and iris scans."