# Protective Security Officers

**Agency:** Homeland Security  
**Account:** Federal Protective Service  
**Source document:** Office of the Secretary and Executive Management · p. 5  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/homeland-security/protective-security-officers  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2027 | request | 1,507.2 |

## Homeland Security discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $91.40B, FY2026 $88.60B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

A nation-wide program that provides contracted security guards stationed onsite at FPS-protected Federal facilities. PSOs are professionally trained in the protection of life and property and are certified in the use of firearms, batons, magnetometers, and X-ray machines.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Homeland Security › Office of the Secretary and Executive Management › Federal Protective Service › Countermeasures


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*