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PCAST Desires Public Input on Critical Infrastructures for Technology Innovation

June 17, 2010/In: Events, Policy /by Brian Mosley

The President’s Innovation and Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) is looking for advice regarding infrastructures paramount to innovation in information technology, nanotechnology, and biotechnology. Comments can be submitted to the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST) through the online portal OpenPCAST. Specifically, PITAC asks: What are the critical infrastructures that only government can […]

ACTION ALERT: Urge Your Rep NOW to Support COMPETES

May 19, 2010/In: Action Alerts, CRA, Funding, Policy /by Peter Harsha

FINAL UPDATE: (5/28/10 3:05 pm) COMPETES passes, sans troublesome MTR language: 262 – 150 with 17 Republicans in support. Now, on to the Senate! UPDATE: (5/28/10) – It looks like Rep. Gordon got creative with a solution to the COMPETES Act logjam. In a surprise move, he’s brought the original bill back to the floor […]

COMPETES Gets Derailed (Temporarily?)

May 13, 2010/In: Funding, Policy /by Peter Harsha

The COMPETES bill we discussed yesterday just got derailed – at the moment it’s just temporary, but it’s unclear how it goes forward from this point. Republican Ranking Member Ralph Hall (R-TX) introduced a “Motion to Recommit with Instructions” that, to just about everyone’s surprise, passed. The motion has had the effect of forcing the […]

COMPETES Reauthorization on Floor Today; CRA Endorses Bill

May 12, 2010/In: CRA, Funding, Policy /by Peter Harsha

Two weeks after the House Science and Technology Committee approved it, the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 will get consideration from the whole House today. The bill, which we’ve discussed previously, would extend funding authorizations through 2015 for a few key science agencies at levels that would double their budgets over ten years, in […]

Computing Research in the FY11 Budget Request

May 5, 2010/In: Funding, FY11 Appropriations, Policy /by Peter Harsha

[Each year, AAAS asks CRA to prepare a chapter on IT research funding in the federal budget request for their Research and Development FY 20XX report, and so we plow through the various agency budget documents and the White House releases and come up with 2000 words or so that attempt to sum up the […]

House S&T Marks up COMPETES Act Reauthorization Today

April 28, 2010/In: Funding, Policy /by Peter Harsha

The House Science and Technology Committee is marking up today its version of a reauthorization (pdf) of the America COMPETES Act – the act that, when passed back in August 2007, marked the culmination of several years of effort to convince Congress and the Administration of the importance of buttressing support for federal investments in […]

The Change at DARPA

March 29, 2010/In: People, Policy, Research, Security /by Peter Harsha

Since about 2001, the computing community – through CRA and others, and with lots of mention on this blog – has aired concerns about policy changes at the Defense Advanced Research Programs Agency (DARPA), the Defense Department’s leading-edge research arm and arguably one of the two most important agencies in the history of computer science. […]

House S&T Committee Considers Cyber Security R&D

September 24, 2009/In: Diversity in Computing, Policy, Research, Security /by MelissaNorr

The House Committee on Science and Technologys Research and Science Education Subcommittee marked up a bill designed to amend portions of Cyber Security R&D Act of 2005 today. The aptly named Cybersecurity Research and Development Amendments Act of 2009 (PDF) touches on several things that CRA supports including: Requires the development of a cybersecurity R&D […]

President Obama Touts Role of Basic Research in Innovation

September 21, 2009/In: Policy /by Peter Harsha

Delivering remarks at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, NY, today, President Obama noted the importance of the U.S. remaining an innovation leaders and how his Administration hopes to continue fostering that. Here’s a snippet with some remarks relevant to the computing community: One key to strengthening education, entrepreneurship, and innovation in communities like Troy […]

Business Week on Research in Industry

August 31, 2009/In: Economic Stimulus and Recovery, Funding, Policy, R&D in the Press /by MelissaNorr

CRA frequently talks about the need for more basic scientific research but we focus almost exclusively on governmental research investment. We talk about the fall of DARPA and the need for NSF to increase to compensate. We don’t spend quite as much time talking about industry investment in basic research. An article in Business Week […]

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