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Tag Archive: FY20 Budget Request

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 […]

NSF FY2020 Request: It is Not Good

March 20, 2019/In: Funding, FY20 Appropriations /by Brian Mosley

As we discussed last week, the Trump Administration is slowly rolling out their Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) budget request. What they released last week was only a high-level summary, which didn’t appear to be good for the federal research agencies, NSF in particular. However it lacked details, which are beginning to be revealed this week.