Is the $2.4 Million Line Item for Thinking About Emerging Technologies?

CNN's John Defterios says he was surprised to see a $2.4 million line item for thinking about emerging technologies in the BIS budget request. The money would go toward analyzing how these industries work and what trend lines they may want to bend, defterios says. But it wouldn't get you halfway there just on this cloud compute question, which we've been talking about,"Defterios writes. "This requires really smart people that we actually have not staffed up"