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Appropriations Update: House FY20 Energy & Water Bill is out and there are Reasons for Optimism

July 11, 2019/In: Funding, FY20 Appropriations, Information Technology R&D Highlights, Research /by Brian Mosley

In June, the House of Representatives passed their version of the Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) Energy and Water appropriations bill, including increases for some key computing programs at Department of Energy. This bill contains the budgets for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science (DOE SC) and ARPA-E, as well as funding for the Exascale Computing R&D program, for which DOE is the lead federal agency. While the increases are probably positive news for the computing research community, uncertainty about overall Federal spending levels likely puts these specific appropriations levels in doubt. Nevertheless, the bills at least send a signal about the areas House Democrats see as priorities for the Federal government in FY20.

Department of Energy FY 2020 Request: It’s Pretty Bad; You Might Want to Look Away…

March 22, 2019/In: Funding, FY20 Appropriations /by Brian Mosley

Continuing our series following the Trump Administration’s Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) budget request, we now go to the Department of Energy (DOE). As bad as the NSF budget request is, DOE’s is much worse. The two key parts of DOE for the computing community are the Office of Science (SC), home of most of the […]

Fiscal Year 2019 Update: Most of the Budget is Done…Except for what’s Most Important for Researchers

September 19, 2018/In: Defense R&D Highlights, Funding, FY19 Appropriations, General /by Brian Mosley

It’s been a busy September from a Congressional appropriations perspective. As of this writing, nine of the twelve appropriations bills have passed, including the Defense, Energy and Water, and Labor-Health and Human Services (HHS) bills – a productive pace not seen from Congress in many years. While it’s good these were passed into law, and they do cover some important research agencies, left unfinished is one key bill of concern to the computing research community — the Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) appropriations bill, which includes funding for NSF, NIST, NOAA and NASA; more on that in a moment. Until then, here are the details of the pieces of legislative that have passed.

Appropriations Update: Department of Energy does well in FY2019 Bills

June 14, 2018/In: Funding, FY19 Appropriations /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 […]

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).

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.

First look at Senate COMPETES bill; S.1398 is good for research but will it move?

June 18, 2015/In: Funding, Policy /by kayla

[With this post, CRA welcomes Kayla Holston, our new Eben Tisdale Science Policy Fellow, who will be working with CRA policy staff this summer. Kayla is a rising second-year Rodman Scholar at the University of Virginia, pursuing majors in biomedical engineering and cognitive science. She’s particularly interested in computing as it relates to neuroscience research, […]

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 […]

Dept of Energy FY15 Request: Good for IT Research, but with Qualifiers

March 7, 2014/In: Funding, FY15 Appropriations /by Brian Mosley

As we mentioned, President Obama released his budget request for the Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) on Tuesday. We’ll be doing a series of posts on the assorted agencies’ budgets that are important to the computing research community. The first agency that we want to highlight is the Department of Energy (DOE), as they released their […]

House Approps Proposes Even More Cuts for NSF, DOE

February 11, 2011/In: Funding, FY11 Appropriations, Policy /by Peter Harsha

The House Appropriations Committee released their spending cuts version 2.0 — after having their previous attempt to cut $74 billion from the President’s request for non-defense discretionary spending savaged by conservative Republicans in the House — and NSF and DOE both face significant cuts. The appropriators went back and took another look at their first […]