Federal Bureau of Investigation: FY 2010 Budget Request

Tags: 2010s Going Dark Mobile National Security Surveillance

Authors: FBI

URL: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/jmd/legacy/2014/04/12/fbi-bud-summary.pdf

Abstract: The FBI’s FY 2010 budget request proposed a roughly $560.3 million (or 7.7%) increase in funding from the preceding year. Included within this requested increase in funding were plans to increase total positions by 1,389—adding 407 new agents—and program enhancements to a number of FBI projects. Most notable among the program enhancements, in the context of encryption, was a requested $9 million increase (to the $233.9 million FY 2019 budget) for Advanced Electronic Surveillance, otherwise known as the “Going Dark” program. As noted in the budget request, the program exists to support the FBI’s electronic surveillance (ELSUR), intelligence collection, and evidence gathering capabilities. The “Going Dark” moniker has long been used by the FBI to refer to the inability of law enforcement to obtain electronic information and evidence from encrypted devices related to criminal activity and investigations.