President’s Budget Request for Science in FY2020 – First Look (Ugh)
President Trump released an overview of his FY 2020 Budget Request and it contains deep requested cuts to some key Federal science agencies.
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Final FY2019 Appropriations Wrap-up – Science does OK.
/In: FY19 Appropriations, General, Policy /by Peter HarshaThere were unfinished funding bills, there was an impasse over a wall, there was a 35-day government shutdown, there was a 3 week interregnum when government reopened and leaders sought to find a way ahead, and then there was final passage and resolution of the FY 2019 appropriations process — one that ended on a […]
Appropriations Update: NSF, NIST, and NASA do well in FY19 Senate Bill
/In: Funding, FY19 Appropriations /by Brian MosleyContinuing CRA’s tracking of the Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19) appropriations process, we turn to the Senate’s Commerce, Justice and Science appropriations bill. The Senate Appropriations Committee marked up their version of the CJS bill on June 14th (by June 28th, the Committee finished marking up all 12 subcommittees’ bills, a 30-year record for timeliness). The CJS bill includes funding for NSF, NIST, and NASA, which are of the most concern to the computing community, along with funding for the Department of Justice. While the attention surrounding this bill has been dominated by immigration issues concerning the Department of Justice, science and computing research have fared relatively well.
Good early news for FY 19 Appropriations for Science
/In: Funding, FY19 Appropriations /by Peter HarshaCongress has taken its first steps at setting funding levels for FY19 and at first glance, it looks positive for some key science agencies. The House Appropriations committee last week passed it’s version of the FY19 Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations and included a 5.2 percent overall increase for NSF, including a 5.0 percent increase to […]
Science Fares Well in Final FY 2018 Spending Bill
/In: FY18 Appropriations, Policy, Research /by Peter HarshaThough it required negotiations that stretched nearly seven months into the fiscal year it is designed to fund, the FY 2018 Omnibus Appropriations act won the approval of a sizable majority in Congress and the reluctant approval of the President at the end of March, providing substantial boosts in Federal spending, including healthy increases to […]
President’s Budget Request a Mixed Bag for Science, but it Could Have Been Much Worse
/In: FY19 Appropriations, General, Policy /by Peter HarshaWhat a difference a budget deal makes…
The President’s budget request for FY 2019, released yesterday, includes some modest gains and some big losses for Federal science agencies — details below, but on the whole a rather mixed bag for those who believe in the importance of the Federal investment in fundamental research. But it could have been much worse.
President’s Budget Request Round-Up: NSF, NIST, NIH, and NASA Budgets Are All Cut
/In: Funding, FY18 Appropriations /by Brian MosleyPresident 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
/In: Funding, FY17 Appropriations /by Brian MosleyTo 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.
CRA Statement Opposing America COMPETES Reauthorization Act
/In: CRA, Funding, FY16 Appropriations, Policy, Statements /by Peter HarshaThe House Committee on Science, Space and Technology is currently marking up the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2015 (H.R. 1806), introduced by Committee Chair Lamar Smith (R-TX) — a bill designed to provide three key science agencies with authorizations for funding for FY 2016 and FY 2017 and implement other policies. The bill is cast as […]
“Cromnibus” Would Boost NSF, DOE Computing, DARPA and DOD Basic Research
/In: Funding, FY15 Appropriations /by Peter HarshaTonight the House narrowly passed an omnibus FY15 appropriations measure that would fund 11 of 12 annual appropriations bills and provide stop-gap funding for the 12th (the Homeland Security bill), a move that would provide increases for the National Science Foundation and for key computing programs at the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The Senate […]
