Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano asked lawmakers Wednesday for their support in addressing the “budget implications” of the failed Christmas airline bombing attempt, although administration officials said some decisions on spending and personnel have been made internally.

Appearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Napolitano did not specify what those implications might be. But she said in written testimony that her department would be accelerating deployment to U.S. airports of advanced passenger screening technology, explosives-trained dogs and security personnel. She said the department would be working to enhance the training and size of the Federal Air Marshal Service and to develop better security technology in cooperation with the Department of Energy.

At the same hearing, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dennis C. Blair said that the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) had recently faced a $30 million cut. But center Director Michael Leiter said Blair had successfully found room in his budget to avoid that cut. “Resources have been an issue,” Leiter said.

Under questioning from Chairman Joseph I. Lieberman , I-Conn., Leiter said the NCTC does not have a search engine-like capacity to find references to a specific person across all of its databases, although he added that the center was working on it.

“I think we have some potential technological solutions on the very, very near-term horizon that we’re attempting to implement within weeks,” Leiter said. “And, frankly, we were surprised — I was surprised at the extent to which other agency searches weren’t hitting against very critical data sets that might’ve uncovered this and then highlighted them for NCTC and others.”

Blair said the intelligence community also didn’t have its people looking at the right threats leading up to the foiled attack. Blair said he has now shifted intelligence analysts from focusing on internal problems in Yemen — their focus before the Christmas attack — to the threat to the United States posed by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, to whom bombing suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab reportedly had ties.