FY2021 budget Archives

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Tag Archive: FY2021 budget

Proposed NSF Reorganization and Funding Increases Get First Congressional Hearings

April 16, 2021/In: FY22 Appropriations, Policy, Research /by Brian Mosley

This week, in four different Congressional hearings, members of Congress got their first chance to weigh in on the multiple proposed changes to the National Science Foundation. Two of these hearings were with Congressional appropriators and concerned President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2022 “skinny” budget request that was released last week. The other two hearings were with the science authorizing committees – the House Science, Space and Technology Committee convened Thursday to consider “Reimagining our Innovation Future,” including some discussion of their newly introduced National Science Foundation for the Future Act, and the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee covered the yet to be reintroduced Endless Frontier Act from Senators Schumer (D-NY) and Young (R-IN). The good news is the initial reactions were mostly positive. However, there are concerns by some members about NSF’s ability to handle a large infusion of funds and whether it’s the right agency to secure the country’s competitiveness.

Roundup of FY2021 Research Agency Requests: NIST, NIH, and NASA, A Familiar Theme of Cuts

March 10, 2020/In: Funding, FY21 Appropriations, Research /by Brian Mosley

In our continuing series following the Trump Administration’s Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21) budget request, we close out with a roundup of an assortment of Federal research agencies. These include the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and NASA. There’s a familiar theme to all of these accounts: cuts to […]

CRA Statement on the FY2021 Presidential Budget Request

February 11, 2020/In: Artificial Intelligence, CRA, FY21 Appropriations, Policy, Research, Statements /by Peter Harsha

CRA commends the Administration for recognizing the importance of Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Information Science to the Nation’s security and competitiveness, and for addressing that with significant new investments in the President’s Budget Request for FY2021. However, we take issue with the proposed cuts to a large number of other areas of science. Failing to […]

President’s Budget Proposes Big Cuts to R&D, but Big Boost to AI/Quantum

February 11, 2020/In: Artificial Intelligence, Funding, FY21 Appropriations, Research /by Peter Harsha

The Administration’s deep cuts to research at the National Science Foundation (-6 percent vs. FY20), DOE Office of Science (-17 percent vs. FY20), NIST (-19 percent), and science programs at NASA (-11 percent) take much of the luster away from the President’s AI/Quantum announcements.