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House Appropriations Committee Passes CJS Funding; Mixed News for NSF

June 2, 2015/In: FY16 Appropriations, Policy, Research /by Brian Mosley

On May 20th the full House Appropriations Committee passed the Commerce, Justice, Science funding bill; this is important to our community because it is the bill that contains the funding for the National Science Foundation, which funds 89 percent of all university-led fundamental computer science research in the U.S. First, the not-so-bad news: NSF doesn’t exactly get a budget cut in actual dollars; it in fact gets a small bump (though when inflation is considered, that bump may go away completely). The worse news: NSF gets some onerous language on how to spend the tax-dollars it’s allocated. Let’s get into the details.

America COMPETES Reauthorization on Floor Today

May 20, 2015/In: American Competitiveness Initiative, Funding, FY16 Appropriations, Policy /by Peter Harsha

The House of Representatives today will consider the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2015 (H.R. 1806), a bill designed to set policy at three key science agencies and authorize funding for the next two fiscal years. The bill is being brought to the floor by House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX), who secured […]

CRA Statement Opposing America COMPETES Reauthorization Act

April 22, 2015/In: CRA, Funding, FY16 Appropriations, Policy, Statements /by Peter Harsha

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology is currently marking up the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2015 (H.R. 1806), introduced by Committee Chair Lamar Smith (R-TX) — a bill designed to provide three key science agencies with authorizations for funding for FY 2016 and FY 2017 and implement other policies. The bill is cast as […]

Dept of Energy FY16 Request: Very Good but Will Congress Approve?

February 6, 2015/In: FY16 Appropriations, Policy /by Brian Mosley

President Obama released his annual budget request on Monday February 2nd (interesting note: Fiscal Year 2016 is the first time his administration released the budget on time). 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 […]

“If we want to out compete, we have to out compute,” witnesses tell Congressional Science Committee

February 2, 2015/In: Misc., People, Policy /by Brian Mosley

On Wednesday January 28th, the Energy Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee held a hearing on, “Supercomputing and American Technology Leadership.” The witnesses that were called, who spanned the public and private sectors in high performance computing (HPC), gave the simple message that in order to out compete other nations, America needs […]

Sustained investment in research is needed to combat cyber threats, CISE AD tells Congress

January 29, 2015/In: Cybersecurity R&D Highlights, People, Policy, Research /by Brian Mosley

On Tuesday January 27th, the Research and Technology Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, & Technology Committee held it’s first hearing of the 114th Congress. The topic was expanding cyber threats and cybersecurity, and the subcommittee heard from experts from both the private sector and government agencies. Assistant Director of CISE, Jim Kurose, testifying for […]

AAAS is making the “CASE” for undergrads & grad students to be science advocates!

January 15, 2015/In: Misc., People, Policy /by Brian Mosley

If you are an upper-class undergrad, or are in grad school, and you’ve always been interested in science policy, but didn’t know where to begin, then do we have a lead for you! The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has brought together for a second year, a coalition of scientific and engineering […]

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Applications to 2015 LiSPI now accepted till January 23rd

January 8, 2015/In: Computing Community Consortium (CCC), People, Policy /by Brian Mosley

Just wanted to put up a quick post that due to extra availability we are extending the deadline for nominations and applications to the 2015 Leadership in Science Policy Institute workshop (aka: LiSPI) to January 23rd. We have also pushed back notifying selectees to February 2nd. If you know of someone who meets the qualifications […]

2015 Outlook: What do we know, and what are we thinking of, the 114th Congress?

January 7, 2015/In: FY16 Appropriations, Policy /by Brian Mosley

With the Fiscal Year 2015 budget finally settled, and a new calendar year ahead of us, the question becomes what will the new 114th Congress, which was sworn into office on Monday, look like and how will they operate? As you will recall, the Republican Party now has a majority of 54 seats in the […]

Get Schooled on Science Policy: LiSPI Call for Nominations Now Open!

November 24, 2014/In: Computing Community Consortium (CCC), People, Policy /by Peter Harsha

As part of its mission to develop a next generation of leaders in the computing research community, the Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announces the third offering of the CCC Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI), intended to educate computing researchers on how science policy in the U.S. is formulated and how our […]

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