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Final FY20 Appropriations: Mostly Increases for Research but There is Some Bad News

December 18, 2019/In: Funding, FY20 Appropriations, Research /by Brian Mosley

Just in time for the calendar year 2020, and almost three months after the Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) began, Congress is finally finishing up its work on the Federal budget with two Minibuses of all the appropriations legislation. For the research community, it’s mostly good news but there are a few clouds in the sky: the National Science Foundation will see very modest increases under the bill, and the defense research accounts are essentially flat-funded.

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

July 11, 2019/In: Funding, FY20 Appropriations, 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 […]

President’s Budget Request for Science in FY2020 – First Look (Ugh)

March 11, 2019/In: Artificial Intelligence, FY20 Appropriations /by Peter Harsha

President Trump released an overview of his FY 2020 Budget Request and it contains deep requested cuts to some key Federal science agencies.

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 […]

Good early news for FY 19 Appropriations for Science

May 22, 2018/In: Funding, FY19 Appropriations /by Peter Harsha

Congress has taken its first steps at setting funding levels for FY19 and at first glance, it looks positive for some key science agencies. The House Appropriations committee last week passed it’s version of the FY19 Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations and included a 5.2 percent overall increase for NSF, including a 5.0 percent increase to […]

Science Fares Well in Final FY 2018 Spending Bill

April 5, 2018/In: FY18 Appropriations, Policy, Research /by Peter Harsha

Though it required negotiations that stretched nearly seven months into the fiscal year it is designed to fund, the FY 2018 Omnibus Appropriations act won the approval of a sizable majority in Congress and the reluctant approval of the President at the end of March, providing substantial boosts in Federal spending, including healthy increases to […]

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.

House Passes DOE Energy Research and Innovation Act

January 25, 2017/In: COMPETES, Policy /by Brian Mosley

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 589, the Department of Energy Research and Innovation Act. Predominantly a policy bill for DOE, the Act provides direction for the Department on, “basic science research, nuclear energy research and development (R&D), research coordination and priorities, and reforms to streamline national lab management.”

CRA Statement Opposing America COMPETES Reauthorization Act

April 22, 2015/In: CRA, Funding, FY16 Appropriations, Policy, Statements /by Peter Harsha

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology is currently marking up the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2015 (H.R. 1806), introduced by Committee Chair Lamar Smith (R-TX) — a bill designed to provide three key science agencies with authorizations for funding for FY 2016 and FY 2017 and implement other policies. The bill is cast as […]