Fiscal Year 2017 Archives

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Tag Archive: Fiscal Year 2017

Defense Research in the FY17 Omnibus

May 3, 2017/In: Funding, FY17 Appropriations /by Brian Mosley

Earlier this week, we published a breakdown of the research agencies in the Fiscal Year 2017 Omnibus spending bill that had been agreed to by both political parties in Congress. There was one significant research agency that was left out of that breakdown: the Department of Defense (DOD). As one would expect, given President Trump’s campaign pledge to increase defense spending, DOD did relatively well in the agreement, with Defense Science and Technology (DOD S&T) accounts being no exception.

Fiscal Year 2017 Omnibus Released; Not Great, but also not Terrible, for Science

May 1, 2017/In: FY17 Appropriations, Research /by Brian Mosley

Late last night, the House Rules Committee released the agreed upon omnibus spending bill for Fiscal Year 2017 (FY17), which Congress has been negotiating for the past few months. The bill released last night, which incorporates all twelve unfinished FY17 appropriations bills into one, must-pass $1.1 trillion spending bill, doesn’t provide for increases to most science research agencies. However, it also doesn’t have cuts to those agencies or proscriptive policy provisions. The negotiators also have mostly ignored President Trump’s proposed cuts to science programs in this final version. So it’s pretty much even for our community; not great but also not a catastrophe either.

Senate Passes Continuing Resolution, Punting FY 2017 Budget to End of April

December 12, 2016/In: FY17 Appropriations /by Brian Mosley

Late in the night on Friday December 9th, the Senate passed a buzzer-beater continuing resolution (or CR) to keep the Federal Government open and operating. The new deadline for us to watch is April 28th 2017, roughly four months from now.

Government Shutdown Averted; Federal Budget on Autopilot till Dec 9

September 29, 2016/In: Funding, FY16 Appropriations /by Brian Mosley

First, the good news: the government won’t have to shut down on Saturday, as Congressional leaders have agreed to a continuing resolution (CR) through December 9. Bad news: we have no idea with a final Fiscal year 2017 will look like or when it will be settled.

Budget Round-Up: NSF, Defense, and NIST Budget Requests Show Mixed Bag for Research

April 27, 2016/In: Funding, FY17 Appropriations /by Brian Mosley

To round out the President’s 2017 (FY17) Budget Requests for key science research accounts, which were released in February, we wanted to cover the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense (DOD), and the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST). Combined these three accounts cover the vast majority of the Federal government’s investment in IT and computing research.

Department of Energy FY 2017 Request: Mixed Bag for Computing

February 15, 2016/In: Funding, FY17 Appropriations /by Brian Mosley

On Tuesday, February 9th, President Obama released the last budget request of his administration. 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).