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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.

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Appropriations Update: NSF, NIST, and NASA do well in FY19 Senate Bill

July 3, 2018/In: Funding, FY19 Appropriations, Information Technology R&D Highlights /by Brian Mosley

Continuing CRA’s tracking of the Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19) appropriations process, we turn to the Senate’s Commerce, Justice and Science appropriations bill. The Senate Appropriations Committee marked up their version of the CJS bill on June 14th (by June 28th, the Committee finished marking up all 12 subcommittees’ bills, a 30-year record for timeliness). The CJS bill includes funding for NSF, NIST, and NASA, which are of the most concern to the computing community, along with funding for the Department of Justice. While the attention surrounding this bill has been dominated by immigration issues concerning the Department of Justice, science and computing research have fared relatively well.

Appropriations Update: Department of Energy does well in FY2019 Bills

June 14, 2018/In: Funding, FY19 Appropriations, Information Technology R&D Highlights /by Brian Mosley

[Editor’s Note: This post was written by CRA’s new Tisdale Policy Fellow for Summer 2018, Amita Shukla.] Continuing CRA’s tracking of the Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19) appropriations process, we pick up with coverage of the Energy and Water Appropriations bills. This is the annual appropriations bill that funds the Department of Energy (DOE) and all […]

Good early news for FY 19 Appropriations for Science

May 22, 2018/In: Funding, FY19 Appropriations, Information Technology R&D Highlights /by Peter Harsha

Congress has taken its first steps at setting funding levels for FY19 and at first glance, it looks positive for some key science agencies. The House Appropriations committee last week passed it’s version of the FY19 Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations and included a 5.2 percent overall increase for NSF, including a 5.0 percent increase to […]

Department of Energy FY 2019 Request: Good for Computing but with Some Asterisks

March 13, 2018/In: Funding, FY19 Appropriations /by Brian Mosley

Last month, President Trump released his budget request for Fiscal Year 2019. As we have done in years past, the CRA Policy Blog will be doing a series of posts on the assorted agency budgets that are important to the computing research community. In this post we highlight the Department of Energy (DOE).

Budget Deal for FY18 and FY19 In Sight; Waiting for it to Cross the Finish Line

February 8, 2018/In: Funding, FY18 Appropriations, FY19 Appropriations /by Brian Mosley

Big news out of Washington today is that there is a new budget deal that could provide much needed relief to Federal science research agencies. Similar to the deals from 2013 and 2015, this agreement would suspend the budgetary caps imposed in the 2011 Budget Control Act for two years.

White House Provides Guidance for FY19 Agency Science Budgets

August 18, 2017/In: Funding, FY19 Appropriations, Policy, STEM /by Peter Harsha

The White House yesterday released its annual guidance to agencies on priorities for R&D budgets. The memo, signed by Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney and Deputy U.S. CTO Michael Kratsios for the Office of Science and Technology Policy, outlines a set of priorities for Federal science agencies to consider as they put […]

Appropriations Update: FY 18 House and Senate Numbers for DOE SC & ARPA-E

August 3, 2017/In: Funding, FY18 Appropriations, Policy /by Brian Mosley

To continue our breakdown of the House and Senate appropriations moves, we turn to the Energy and Water Appropriations bills, which fund the Department of Energy (DOE). The parts of the department of most concern to the computing community are the Office of Science (SC), home of most of the agency’s basic research support, and ARPA-E, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.

Appropriations Update: FY 18 House and Senate Numbers for NSF

July 27, 2017/In: Funding, FY18 Appropriations, Policy /by Peter Harsha

With today’s Senate Appropriations Committee markup of the FY 2018 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill, along with the House Appropriations Committee markup of their version of the bill 15 days ago, we now have a good insight into how the National Science Foundation might fare in the FY 2018 appropriations process (along with a few other […]

President’s Budget Request Round-Up: NSF, NIST, NIH, and NASA Budgets Are All Cut

May 30, 2017/In: Funding, FY18 Appropriations /by Brian Mosley

President Trump released his annual budget request last week. 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 highlighting the ones that are of importance to the computing community.

First Look: President Trump’s FY18 Budget Request is Rough for Science

May 23, 2017/In: Defense R&D Highlights, Funding, FY18 Appropriations, Policy /by Peter Harsha

Today President Trump released a more detailed budget request for FY 2018, a follow up to the “skinny” budget released in March, and science agencies fare pretty poorly (as do a lot of other government programs), though U.S. efforts to develop “exascale” computing capabilities were prioritized. Here are some quick details: The National Science Foundation would see a cut […]