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Computing Research Policy Blog

February 2015

Dept of Energy FY16 Request: Very Good but Will Congress Approve?

February 6, 2015/In: FY16 Appropriations, Policy /by Brian Mosley

President Obama released his annual budget request on Monday February 2nd (interesting note: Fiscal Year 2016 is the first time his administration released the budget on time). As we have done in years past, the CRA Policy Blog will be doing a series of posts on the assorted budget requests for key science agencies, particularly […]

“If we want to out compete, we have to out compute,” witnesses tell Congressional Science Committee

February 2, 2015/In: Misc., People, Policy /by Brian Mosley

On Wednesday January 28th, the Energy Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee held a hearing on, “Supercomputing and American Technology Leadership.” The witnesses that were called, who spanned the public and private sectors in high performance computing (HPC), gave the simple message that in order to out compete other nations, America needs […]