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House Science Committee Advances NSF & DOE Science Legislation; Both Bills Head to Full House for Consideration

June 21, 2021/In: Policy, Research, STEM /by Brian Mosley

Last week, the full House Science, Space, and Technology Committee considered their NSF for the Future Act (H.R. 2225) and the recently introduced DOE Science for the Future Act (H.R. 3593). In another departure from their counterparts in the Senate, the committee marked-up both bills in a bipartisan environment with each amendment being approved on unanimous voice-votes. Both pieces of legislation were likewise approved on a bipartisan basis, with no votes in opposition.

Department of Energy FY 2022 Request: Relatively Modest Budget Increases with Exascale and QIS Featured as Administration Priorities

June 7, 2021/In: Funding, FY22 Appropriations, Research /by Brian Mosley

In our continuing series following the Biden Administration’s Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) budget request, we now turn to the Department of Energy (DOE). Similar to the NSF budget request we detailed earlier, but DOE gets just a bit less generous of a request.

President Biden Requests Increases for Non-Defense Federal Research; Cuts to Defense Research in FY2022

May 31, 2021/In: Funding, FY22 Appropriations, Policy /by Peter Harsha

On Friday, President Joe Biden released his $6 trillion, detailed request for the FY 2022 Federal Budget, including a 9 percent increase for Federal investments in research and development across the government. This strong commitment to R&D in a budget request is a marked departure over the budget requests for science in the previous administration.

National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act Inches Closer to Passage

December 8, 2020/In: Artificial Intelligence, Computing Community Consortium (CCC), Policy, Research /by Brian Mosley

Last week the long awaited conferenced National Defense Authorization Act (or NDAA; the defense policy bill) was publicly released. Regular readers will recall that earlier in the year that the House Science Committee’s National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act (HR 6216) was included in the House version of the NDAA. At that time, there was no equivalent in the Senate NDAA and it was unclear if it would survive the conference negotiations. Fortunately, the AI Initiative Act was included in the conference agreement released last week.

FY21 Update: Senate Releases Numbers in Preparation for Budget Endgame in December

November 11, 2020/In: Funding, FY21 Appropriations /by Brian Mosley

When last we left the Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21) budget process, we were worried about a potentially stalled continuing resolution at the end of September. Luckily, no one wanted to shut down the government just before the November Election; a CR was passed and signed into law. The CR created a new deadline to get a permanent budget into place, which is December 11th. Now with the election behind us, and hoping to jumpstart the process, yesterday the Senate Appropriations Committee released its slate of appropriations bills. Let’s get into the details.

Update from CCC: NSF Advances Artificial Intelligence Research with New Nationwide Institutes

August 26, 2020/In: Artificial Intelligence, Policy, Research /by Brian Mosley

In case you missed it — the CCC Blog has coverage of National Science Foundation’s recently announcement “establishing new artificial intelligence institutes to accelerate research, expand America’s workforce, and transform society in the decades to come.” This move is in line with one of the recommendations in the CCC-led AI roadmap report, A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US. This is great news; and, when combined with the efforts in Congress to bolster AI research — including adding the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 to the House National Defense Authorization Act, which is a piece of “must pass” legislation — signals that AI research is likely to stay a hot-topic in Washington for some time. Keep checking back for more updates.

Update on AI Bills in Congress; House Science Committee AI Initiative Act Added to Defense Policy Bill

July 30, 2020/In: Artificial Intelligence, Computing Community Consortium (CCC), Policy, Research /by Brian Mosley

There has been a flurry of activity over the last few weeks on a number of AI related pieces of legislation in Congress.

FY21 Appropriations Update: House Numbers for the Dept of Energy are Better than the Administration’s but are Not Great

July 15, 2020/In: Funding, FY21 Appropriations /by Brian Mosley

Continuing our review of the Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21) federal budget, we turn to the House Appropriations Committee’s Energy and Water bill. 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 House’s numbers are significantly better than the 17% cut that the Administration requested in February, they represent a fairly small increase over last year’s budget. Let’s get into the details.

House SS&T Committee Introduces Bipartisan AI Research Bill to Significantly Increase Research Authorizations

March 13, 2020/In: Artificial Intelligence, Computing Community Consortium (CCC), Funding, Policy, Research /by Peter Harsha

House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) and Ranking Member Frank Lucas (R-OK) yesterday introduced long-awaited legislation aimed at solidifying the U.S. leadership role in artificial intelligence research, education, and workforce development.

Department of Energy FY 2021 Request: Office of Science is Hit Hard with Cuts; Computing Research Fairs Better

February 14, 2020/In: Artificial Intelligence, Funding, FY21 Appropriations /by Brian Mosley

In our continuing series following the Trump Administration’s Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21) budget request, we now turn to the Department of Energy (DOE). There are similarities with the NSF budget request we detailed earlier, including large funding reductions.