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Tag Archive: appropriations

Fiscal Year 2019 Update: What to Expect the Rest of the Year

August 31, 2018/In: Funding, FY19 Appropriations /by Brian Mosley

Our regular readers will have noticed that Congress was busy over the summer with the Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19) Appropriations. With funding levels agreed to last year, both the House and Senate were able to plow ahead and get much of their work done for the next fiscal year (which is set to start on October 1st). However, our regular readers will also recognize that that’s when Congress tends to hit a roadblock; this year is no different. The twist for this year is that a good amount of research funding is being held up in the process.

President’s Budget Request a Mixed Bag for Science, but it Could Have Been Much Worse

February 13, 2018/In: FY19 Appropriations, General, Policy /by Peter Harsha

What a difference a budget deal makes…

The President’s budget request for FY 2019, released yesterday, includes some modest gains and some big losses for Federal science agencies — details below, but on the whole a rather mixed bag for those who believe in the importance of the Federal investment in fundamental research. But it could have been much worse.

Coalition for National Security Research Releases Statement on Senate Defense Appropriations Bill

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

The Coalition for National Security Research (CNSR), a broad-based coalition of 74 members (of which CRA is a member) including industry, research universities and institutes, and scientific and professional associations committed to a strong Defense Science and Technology (S&T) Program, released a statement commending the Senate Appropriations Committee for their work on S. 1558, the […]

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.

NSF Flat-funded in House FY12 Approps Draft

July 6, 2011/In: Funding, FY12 Appropriations /by Peter Harsha

The House Appropriations Subcommittee for Commerce, Justice, Science today released its draft of the FY12 CJS appropriations bill, containing funding for the National Science Foundation at the same level the agency received in FY11. The bill totals over $50 billion for FY12 spending in programs at the Department of Commerce, Department of Justice, NASA, NSF, […]

NSF Fares (Suprisingly) Well, DOE Does Not, in Proposed Approps Cuts for FY11

February 9, 2011/In: Funding, FY11 Appropriations, FY12 Appropriations, Policy /by Peter Harsha

Update: (Feb 11, 2011) – They’ve released version 2.0 of the proposal… Update: Um, nevermind. After conservative Republicans savaged the proposed $32 billion in cuts as inadequate, House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers pledged to come back with a proposal that would cut $100 billion, potentially putting NSF right back under the crosshairs. Here’s Roger’s statement: […]

America COMPETES Rises From Ashes; However, Appropriations Punted to February

December 21, 2010/In: Funding, FY11 Appropriations, Policy /by Peter Harsha

Today the House voted to pass a revised version of the America COMPETES Act, a bill that would reauthorize several key science agencies and STEM Education programs, completing an unlikely resurrection of a bill most in the science advocacy community (including this correspondent) figured was dead in this session. COMPETES has been through quite a […]

NSF Fares Well in First FY11 Appropriations Mark

June 30, 2010/In: Funding, FY11 Appropriations /by Peter Harsha

The House Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Subcommittee has marked up it’s FY11 appropriations bill and approved a healthy increase for the National Science Foundation. The committee approved essentially the President’s requested increase for NSF, about an 8 percent increase in FY11 vs. FY10. Here’s a breakdown. It appears that NSF’s Research and Related Activities account […]

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 […]