Just before President Bush delivered his bill to Congress on 18 June to establish the $37.5 billion Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the White House released analytical documents indicating what role science and technology would play in the department's war against terrorism. “America's vast science and technology base provides us with a key advantage,” one administration document said. “The department would press this advantage with a national research and development enterprise for homeland security comparable in emphasis and scope to that which has supported the national security community for more than fifty years.”