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Quick Update: NSF and NIST Fare Well in FY 10 Final Approps Bill

December 10, 2009/In: FY10 Appropriations /by Peter Harsha

The House and Senate Appropriators are in their end game on the FY 10 appropriations process and yesterday released the “conference agreement” for an omnibus appropriations bill they’ve created that bundles all the outstanding appropriations bills save one (Defense). Included in the conference bill are the agreed upon funding levels for several key science agencies. […]

FY 10 Appropriations Update: Energy, NSF, NIST, Defense

November 13, 2009/In: FY10 Appropriations /by Peter Harsha

We’re in the end game for the FY 2010 appropriations, but no one is really sure exactly how this will end (though there are some good theories). While a number of bills have actually passed through regular order — including, most relevantly for the computing research community, the Energy and Water appropriations bill, which contains […]

Obama Announces New Commitment to R&D Funding, PCAST Members

April 27, 2009/In: Funding, FY10 Appropriations, Policy, R&D in the Press /by Peter Harsha

The President used a speech before the members of the National Academy of Sciences today to reiterate his commitment to boosting the U.S. investment in science and technology.In his remarks before the opening session of the National Academy’s annual meeting, Obama set a goal of seeing the U.S. invest 3 percent or more of its […]