Tag Archive: Government Affairs
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications, and Brian Mosley, Associate Director of Government Affairs The Computing Research Association (CRA), in collaboration with IEEE-USA and Carnegie Mellon University, was pleased to host Members of Congress, the media, and the public at the Robotics Showcase and Demo Day in the Hart Senate Office Building on April 30. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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.” […]
By Brian Mosley, Associate Director, Government Affairs In late February, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced the establishment of a bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence. The task force will be co-chairs by Jay Obernolte (R-CA) and Ted Lieu (D-CA) and will have 24 members drawn equally […]
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 […]
By Brian Mosley, Associate Director, Government Affairs The National Science Foundation, in collaboration with several other federal agencies, announced the launch of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot program yesterday. The program, which partners with 10 federal agencies and 25 private sector, nonprofit, and philanthropic organizations, will, “provide access to advanced computing, datasets, […]
