FY24 Appropriations Update: Senate Defense Research Numbers Released; Basic Research Does Well, Other Accounts Receive Cuts
Analysis of the Fiscal Year 2024 Senate Appropriations Committee’s Defense Legislation.
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FY24 Appropriations Update: The House’s Defense Research Budget is Very Bad, Even Though It Is Better than the Administration’s
Analysis of the Fiscal Year 2024 House Appropriations Committee’s Defense Legislation.
Department of Defense FY 2024 Request: Another Terrible Budget Request for Defense Research
In our continuing series following the Biden Administration’s Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) budget request, we now turn to the Department of Defense (DOD).
President Biden Releases Some Topline Budget Numbers for Fiscal Year 2024; Numbers for Multiple Science Agencies Do Well; NSF Receives 14% Increase
The Biden Administration released some details of their $6.9 trillion budget request for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24). Research agencies across the federal government will do well under President Biden’s budget request, particularly NSF, much as they did in last year’s request.
FY23 Update: Omnibus Numbers Released; NSF Receives Historic Budget Increase
Analysis of the Fiscal Year 2023 Omnibus legislation, which completes the Fiscal Year 2023 process.
FY23 Appropriations Update: Like Last Year, the House’s Defense Research Budget is Better than the Administration’s but that Doesn’t Mean It’s Good
Analysis of the Fiscal Year 2023 House Appropriations Committee’s Defense legislation.
Department of Defense FY 2023 Request: Yet Another Terrible Budget Request for the Defense Research Accounts
In our continuing series following the Biden Administration’s Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) budget request, we now turn to the Department of Defense (DOD).
President Biden Releases Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request; Topline Numbers for Multiple Science Agencies Do Well; NSF Gets 19% Increase
Yesterday, the Biden Administration released some details of their $5.8 trillion budget request for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23). Research agencies across the federal government will do quite well under President Biden’s budget request, much as they did in last year’s request.
FY22 Update: Omnibus Numbers Released; NSF Fares Badly While Defense Research Does Well
Over six months after the fiscal year began, Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) is inching closer to being passed into law by Congress. Unfortunately, this massive legislative package does not contain good news for many of the research accounts that the computing community is concerned about, most especially NSF.
FY22 Appropriations Update: Senate Defense Research Budget Plan Looks Great
Senate appropriators have bucked low defense research budgets for Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22), proposed by both the President and their House counterparts, and approved legislation that would significantly increase funding for Defense Basic Research (6.1). DOD 6.1 would grow by 12.5 percent vs. FY21 to $3.0 billion under the Senate plan, and DARPA funding would grow 12.1 percent to $4.25 billion.
