While the contract is developed primarily for Library of Congress offices, it will also be made available to all legislative agencies.

A new advisory committee will design the recently funded service to implement pilots across agencies increasing data access and privacy — objectives often thought at odds.

Agency compliance has been an issue for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

The program, which the Department of Homeland Security uses to monitor and protect federal networks, is adding more data and connections all the time. Congress enters another year without giving it official legislative authority.

As proposed in a House bill, the program would cost about $11 million per year, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

CBO officials said the bulk of the costs would come from increased QIS education and research funding to the Department of Energy, NIST and NSF.