A U.S. House bill that will set the nation’s basic research agenda for the next two years increases funding for computer science, but at the expense of other areas important to cybersecurity.

The funding bill, sponsored by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the chair of the Science, Space and Technology Committee, hikes funding for computer science, but cuts – almost by half – social sciences funding, which includes the study of human behavior. Cybersecurity uses human behavior research because humans are often the weakest security link.

The bill, known as the Competes Act, sets National Science Foundation (NSF) funding for the 2016 and 2017 fiscal years, and divides it up by research disciplines. The way it works is this: In the computer and information sciences and engineering area, for instance, the bill increases funding from $922 million to $1.050 billion in 2016, a nearly 14% increase. It stays at that funding level in 2017.

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