FY23 Appropriations Update: Strong Budget Numbers for NSF, NIST, & NASA from Senate Appropriators; but How Likely Are They to Become Law?
Fiscal Year 2023 Senate Appropriations Committee’s Commerce, Justice, Science legislation.
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FY23 Appropriations Update: House Appropriators Provide Heathy Increases for NSF, NIST, NASA; Will They be Passed into Law?
/In: Funding, FY23 Appropriations /by Brian MosleyFiscal Year 2023 House Appropriations Committee’s Commerce, Justice, Science legislation.
Roundup of FY2023 Research Agency Requests: Generally Good Numbers for the Budget Requests for NIST, NIH, and NASA, with Some Caveats
/In: Funding, FY23 Appropriations, Research /by Brian MosleyIn our continuing series following the Biden Administration’s Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) budget request, we close out with a roundup of an assortment of Federal research agencies: NIST, NASA, and NIH.
President Biden Releases Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request; Topline Numbers for Multiple Science Agencies Do Well; NSF Gets 19% Increase
/In: Funding, FY23 Appropriations, Research /by Brian MosleyYesterday, the Biden Administration released some details of their $5.8 trillion budget request for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23). Research agencies across the federal government will do quite well under President Biden’s budget request, much as they did in last year’s request.
FY22 Update: Omnibus Numbers Released; NSF Fares Badly While Defense Research Does Well
/In: Funding, FY22 Appropriations, Research /by Brian MosleyOver six months after the fiscal year began, Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) is inching closer to being passed into law by Congress. Unfortunately, this massive legislative package does not contain good news for many of the research accounts that the computing community is concerned about, most especially NSF.
FY22 Appropriations Update: Senate Appropriators Provide Increases for NSF, NIST, & NASA, but Not as Generous as the House
/In: Funding, FY22 Appropriations /by Brian MosleyOn Monday, the Senate Appropriations Committee released their final nine appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22). Continuing our regular coverage of the federal budget process, we’ll start by looking at the Senate’s Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) Appropriations bill, which contains the budgets for NSF, NIST, and NASA. This bill provides a good look at […]
President Biden Requests Increases for Non-Defense Federal Research; Cuts to Defense Research in FY2022
/In: Funding, FY22 Appropriations, Policy /by Peter HarshaOn Friday, President Joe Biden released his $6 trillion, detailed request for the FY 2022 Federal Budget, including a 9 percent increase for Federal investments in research and development across the government. This strong commitment to R&D in a budget request is a marked departure over the budget requests for science in the previous administration.
Research Funds Included in Emergency Legislation; Heads to President for Signing Into Law
/In: Funding, R&D in the Press, Research /by Brian MosleyOn Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021; the $1.9 trillion bill that is meant to provide additional relief to the country to address the impacts of the ongoing COVID pandemic. As the Senate approved the measure on Saturday, the bill now heads to President Biden for signing into law.
FY21 Update: Final Budget Numbers Released; Research Fares Well
/In: Funding, FY21 Appropriations, Research /by Brian MosleyUPDATE (12/28/20): After threatening a veto, and risking a government shutdown, Trump signed the budget into law Sunday night. Fiscal Year 2021 is complete. Original Post: When last we left the Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21) budget process, we were waiting for Congress to get the final bill across the finish line. It took them two […]
National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act Inches Closer to Passage
/In: Artificial Intelligence, Computing Community Consortium (CCC), Policy, Research /by Brian MosleyLast week the long awaited conferenced National Defense Authorization Act (or NDAA; the defense policy bill) was publicly released. Regular readers will recall that earlier in the year that the House Science Committee’s National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act (HR 6216) was included in the House version of the NDAA. At that time, there was no equivalent in the Senate NDAA and it was unclear if it would survive the conference negotiations. Fortunately, the AI Initiative Act was included in the conference agreement released last week.
