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Computing Research Policy Blog

The Computing Research Association (or CRA) has been involved in shaping public policy of relevance to computing research for more than two decades. More recently the CRA Government Affairs program has enhanced its efforts to help the members of the computing research community contribute to the public debate knowledgeably and effectively.

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Appropriations Update: Senate NSF Numbers are Out but the Endgame for FY20 is very, very complicated…

October 16, 2019/In: FY20 Appropriations, Information Technology R&D Highlights, Research /by Brian Mosley

In our continuing series looking at Congressional actions on the Fiscal Year 2020 budget, we finally have a look at where the Senate Appropriations Committee stands on funding for some key sciences agencies, with the National Science Foundation being the most important. The basic synopsis is the Senate supplies positive numbers in their blueprint but they are not as generous as what the House of Representatives provided in May.

Appropriations Update: House Numbers for NSF, NIST, and NASA are out and they are quite good!

May 20, 2019/In: FY20 Appropriations /by Brian Mosley

Congress has begun the yearly appropriations process, divvying up tax-payer dollars to the assorted federal agencies. As is the norm, the House Appropriations Committee has begun its work first. The bill of most importance to the CS and IT research community is the Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) bill; it contains the funding for the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and NASA. And there is good news: increases all around!

President’s Budget Request Round-Up: NSF, NIST, NIH, and NASA Budgets Are All Cut

May 30, 2017/In: Funding, FY18 Appropriations /by Brian Mosley

President Trump released his annual budget request last week. As we have done in years past, the CRA Policy Blog will be doing a series of posts on the assorted budget requests for key science agencies, particularly highlighting the ones that are of importance to the computing community.

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.

NIST FY15 Request

March 20, 2014/In: FY15 Appropriations /by Brian Mosley

In our continuing series on the Fiscal Year 2015 (FY15) Presidential Budget request, we next come to NIST, or the National Institute of Standards and Technology. NIST is on the smaller size of the science agencies, budget-authority-speaking, but it is still a significant contributor for IT research. The main part of the agency that CRA […]