CRA Government Affairs

Computing Research Policy Blog

The Computing Research Association (or CRA) has been involved in shaping public policy of relevance to computing research for more than two decades. More recently the CRA Government Affairs program has enhanced its efforts to help the members of the computing research community contribute to the public debate knowledgeably and effectively.

Posts categorized under: Defense R&D Highlights

Fiscal Year 2019 Update: Most of the Budget is Done…Except for what’s Most Important for Researchers

September 19, 2018/In: Defense R&D Highlights, Funding, FY19 Appropriations, General, Information Technology R&D Highlights /by Brian Mosley

It’s been a busy September from a Congressional appropriations perspective. As of this writing, nine of the twelve appropriations bills have passed, including the Defense, Energy and Water, and Labor-Health and Human Services (HHS) bills – a productive pace not seen from Congress in many years. While it’s good these were passed into law, and they do cover some important research agencies, left unfinished is one key bill of concern to the computing research community — the Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) appropriations bill, which includes funding for NSF, NIST, NOAA and NASA; more on that in a moment. Until then, here are the details of the pieces of legislative that have passed.

Science Fares Well in Final FY 2018 Spending Bill

April 5, 2018/In: Defense R&D Highlights, FY18 Appropriations, Policy, Research /by Peter Harsha

Though it required negotiations that stretched nearly seven months into the fiscal year it is designed to fund, the FY 2018 Omnibus Appropriations act won the approval of a sizable majority in Congress and the reluctant approval of the President at the end of March, providing substantial boosts in Federal spending, including healthy increases to […]