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The Trump Administration’s First Weeks in Office: Executive Orders, Other Actions, and Their Impact on the Computing Research Community

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By Brian Mosley, Associate Director of Government Affairs The first days of the new Trump Administration were marked by a series of executive orders and presidential actions, each with varying degrees of impact on the computing research community. On January 20, the administration’s inaugural day, President Trump issued multiple executive orders, nearly all fulfilling campaign […]

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President-Elect Trump Names OSTP Director and Other High Level Science & Tech Policy Staff

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By Brian Mosley, Associate Director of Government Affairs Just before the holidays, President-Elect Trump announced that Michael Kratsios will be nominated as the Director of the Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP). Informally known as the President’s Science Advisor, the Director of OSTP oversees the office tasked with providing advice to the President, and […]

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Six Leading Computing Organizations Call on Congress to Fully Fund the CHIPS and Science Act, Bringing Computing Research Advocacy to Capitol Hill

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By Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications On September 12, 2024, computing researchers participating in CRA’s annual Congressional Visit Day took to Capitol Hill armed with a crucial message: fully fund the CHIPS and Science Act.  This year’s visit day coincided with the release of a letter from six leading computing organizations — the Association for […]

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OSTP Releases Research Security Memo to Research Agencies; Begins Implementation Timeline

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By Brian Mosley, Associate Director of Government Affairs Last month, the Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) released their long-expected memo on “Guidelines for Research Security Programs at Covered Institutions.” This memo is the latest action taken by OSTP to implement the requirements in National Security Presidential Memorandum 33 (NSPM-33) and certain provisions of […]

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FY24 Budget Update: Congress Closes Out Fiscal Year with Generally Poor Budgets for Research Agencies; NSF and Defense Research Receive Significant Cuts

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By Brian Mosley, Associate Director, Government Affairs Note: parts of this article originally ran on the CRA Policy Blog in two posts that correspond to when Congress approved both halves of the Fiscal Year 2024 Federal budget. In a two-stage process in March, Congress approved, and President Biden signed into law, the final funding levels […]

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CRA Statement Expressing Serious Concerns About Fiscal Year 2024 Funding Levels at the National Science Foundation and Other Key Federal Research Agencies

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By Brian Mosley, Associate Director, Government Affairs At the beginning of March, Congress passed, and President Biden signed into law, the Fiscal Year 2024 budgets for the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards & Technology, the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, and NASA. Many of these budgets received funding cuts, some significant, […]

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NSF FY2025 Request: NSF Gets Another Good Budget Request but With Some Qualifications and Unknowns

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By Brian Mosley, Associate Director, Government Affairs The Biden Administration released their Fiscal Year 2025 requested budget on March 11th. As we have done in years past, the CRA Policy Blog will write a series of posts analyzing the assorted agency requested budgets that are important to the computing research community. First up is the […]

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Research Agencies Tell Congress of the Challenges with Implementing Research Security Policies

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By Brian Mosley, Associate Director, Government Affairs On February 15th, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a hearing, titled “Examining Federal Science Agency Actions to Secure the U.S. Science and Technology Enterprise”, to look at how federal science agencies are implementing, “recent guidance and laws to protect proprietary technology and scientific discoveries.” […]

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House Science Committee Examines How Federal Science Agencies Can Harness Artificial Intelligence to Drive Scientific Discoveries

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By Brian Mosley, Associate Director, Government Affairs On February 6th the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a hearing, titled Federal Science Agencies and the Promise of AI in Driving Scientific Discoveries, to look at, “how federal science agencies can further harness artificial intelligence (AI) to drive discoveries in new scientific domains and […]

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