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Tag Archive: COMPETES

USICA and Competes Act Update: Legislation is Stalled and its Future is Uncertain

June 15, 2022/In: Funding, Information Technology R&D Highlights, Policy, Research /by Brian Mosley

When we last left the NSF reauthorization legislation in early February, the House of Representatives had just introduced and passed the America COMPETES Act of 2022. We had expected this legislation to head rapidly into a conferencing process with the Senate’s USICA, where a compromise bill would be hammered out. Unfortunately, the process has been much slower to progress than expected and has all but ground to a halt

Speaker Pelosi and Chairwoman Johnson Introduce America COMPETES Act of 2022

February 2, 2022/In: Funding, Policy, Research /by Brian Mosley

Last week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) introduced the America COMPETES Act of 2022.

Unexpectedly, House passes COMPETES Act Reauthorization, including NITRD Authorization; Bill Sent to President for Signature!

December 16, 2016/In: COMPETES, Policy, Research /by Brian Mosley

In a surprising move today, the House of Representatives passed S. 3084, “The American Innovation and Competitiveness Act.”

Senate Version of COMPETES Act Reauthorization Introduced

June 30, 2016/In: COMPETES, Policy /by Brian Mosley

This morning, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee released their long awaited reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act. The bill, called the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act (S. 3084), would set federal science policy at the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), and the Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP).

CRA Releases Letter Endorsing American Competitiveness and Innovation Act

June 28, 2016/In: COMPETES, Policy, Statements /by Peter Harsha

Yesterday, CRA released a letter to Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Gary Peters (D-MI), and Senate Commerce, Science Screenshot 2016-06-28 14.45.54and Transportation Committee Chair John Thune (R-SD) and Ranking Member Bill Nelson (D-FL), expressing support for their efforts to pass S. 3084, the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act, which will be marked up in committee on June 29, 2016.

Microsoft Research VP to Speak to Congress about Importance of Federal Research Funding

October 20, 2015/In: COMPETES, People /by Brian Mosley

Jeannette Wing, a corporate vice president at Microsoft Research overseeing the company’s core research labs and former CRA board member (and current member of CRA’s), has an excellent post on the importance of federally supported fundamental research.

CRA Urges Senate Commerce Task Force to Support Robust, Stable Investments in Research

August 21, 2015/In: American Competitiveness Initiative, COMPETES, Funding, FY16 Appropriations, Policy /by Peter Harsha

CRA today filed comments with Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Gary Peters (D-MI) urging the senators to put a priority on ensuring that fundamental research in the physical sciences, including computing, sees strong and sustainable growth as the senators work to build bipartisan consensus around a reauthorization of a key science policy bill. The senators […]

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 […]

FIRST Act Marked Up By the Full House Science Committee

May 29, 2014/In: Policy /by Brian Mosley

On May 22nd the House Science Committee took up the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science, and Technology (or FIRST) Act of 2014. The bill’s lead sponsor is the House Science Committee chairman, Lamar Smith (R-TX). This bill is to reauthorize the majority of the America COMPETES Act of 2010, and focuses on the non-energy agencies […]

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 […]