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Summary:

This report is part of a suite of reports that discuss appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for FY2017. It specifically discusses appropriations for the components of DHS included in the first title of the homeland security appropriations bill—the Office of the Secretary and Executive Management, the Office of the Under Secretary for Management, the DHS headquarters consolidation project, the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, the Office of the Chief Information Officer, Analysis and Operations, and the Office of Inspector General for the department. Collectively, Congress has labeled these components in recent years as "Departmental Management and Operations," although this year, the House Appropriations Committee chose to rename the title "Departmental Management, Operations, Intelligence, and Oversight." The report provides an overview of the Administration's FY2017 request for these components, and the appropriations proposed by the Senate and House appropriations committees in response. Rather than limiting the scope of its review to the first titles of the bills, the report includes information on provisions throughout the bills and report that directly affect these components. Departmental Management and Operations is the smallest of the four titles that carry the bulk of funding in the bill. The Administration requested almost $1.5 billion for these components in FY2017, $37 million less than was provided for FY2016. The amount requested for these components is 3% of the Administration's $47.7 billion request in net discretionary budget authority and disaster relief funding for DHS. The proposed decrease in discretionary funding for these components is 11.1% of the total net decrease in adjusted net discretionary budget authority requested for the department. The largest budget increase proposed in the request for these components was $41 million (66%) for the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer, while the largest budget decrease proposed was the non-recurrence of a $100 million appropriation in general provisions to fund OCIO cybersecurity activities. Senate Appropriations Committee-reported S. 3001 would have provided the components included in this title more than $1.4 billion in net discretionary budget authority in FY2017. This would have been $24 million (1.7%) less than requested, and $62 million (4.2%) less than was provided in FY2016. House Appropriations Committee-reported H.R. 5634 would have provided the components included in this title more than $1.3 billion in net discretionary budget authority in FY2017. This would have been $126 million (8.6%) less than requested, and $163 million (10.8%) less than was provided in FY2016. Additional information on the broader subject of FY2017 funding for the department can be found in CRS Report R44621, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations: FY2017, as well as links to analytical overviews and details regarding appropriations for other components. On September 29, 2016, the President signed into law P.L. 114-223, which contained a continuing resolution that funds the government at the same rate of operations as FY2017, minus 0.496% through December 9, 2017. A second continuing resolution was signed into law on December 10, 2016 (P.L. 114-254), funding the government at the same rate of operations as FY2016, minus 0.1901%, through April 28, 2017. For details on the continuing resolution and its impact on DHS, see CRS Report R44621, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations: FY2017, which also includes additional information on the broader subject of FY2017 funding for DHS as well as links to analytical overviews and details regarding components in other titles. This report will be updated once the annual appropriations process for DHS for FY2017 is concluded.