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COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, AND PUBLIC POLICY
PHILLIP A. GRIFFITHS (Chair), Director,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
BRUCE M. ALBERTS,* President,
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
WILLIAM F. BRINKMAN, Vice President,
Physical Sciences Research, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ
PETER DIAMOND, Professor of Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
GERALD P. DINNEEN, Retired Vice President,
Science and Technology, Honeywell, Inc., Edina, MN
MILDRED S. DRESSELHAUS, Institute Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
JAMES J. DUDERSTADT, President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering,
Millennium Project, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
MARYE ANNE FOX, Vice President for Research,
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
RALPH E. GOMORY, President,
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New York, NY
RUBY P. HEARN, Vice President,
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ
PHILIP W. MAJERUS, Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Director,
Division of Hematology-Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
JUNE E. OSBORN, President,
Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, New York, NY
KENNETH I. SHINE,* President,
Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC
MORRIS TANENBAUM, Vice President,
National Academy of Engineering, Short Hills, NJ
WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON, Malcolm Wiener Professor,
Center for Social Policy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
WILLIAM A. WULF,* President,
National Academy of Engineering, Washington, DC
MYRON F. UMAN, Interim Executive Director
DEBORAH D. STINE, Associate Director
MARION RAMSEY, Administrative Associate
COSEPUP GUIDANCE GROUP
JAMES J. DUDERSTADT (Chair), President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering,
Millennium Project, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
MILDRED S. DRESSELHAUS, Institute Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
MARYE ANNE FOX, Vice President for Research,
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
PHILLIP A. GRIFFITHS, Director,
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
H. GUYFORD STEVER, Science Consultant,
Gaithersburg, MD
DEBORAH D. STINE, Study Director
PATRICK P. SEVCIK, Research Associate
MICHAEL McGEARY, Consultant
NORMAN GROSSBLATT, Editor
Preface
In 1995, a National Academy of Sciences (NAS)-National Academy of Engineering (NAE)-Institute of Medicine (IOM)-National Research Council (NRC) committee issued a report titled Allocating Federal Funds for Science and Technology.
The committee recommended development of a federal science and technology (FS&T) budget that would reflect the real federal investment in the creation of new knowledge and technologies and exclude activities not involving the creation of new knowledge or technologies, such as the testing and evaluating of new weapons systems. An NAS panel later issued a series of reports with quantitative and qualitative assessments of the FS&T budget.
Beginning this year, the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP), a joint committee of the NAS, NAE, and IOM, will issue these annual assessments (which are available on COSEPUP's web site: http://www2.nas.edu/cosepup). To eliminate duplicate quantitative analysis of the budget by COSEPUP, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), in cooperation with the Academies, has now added a quantitative assessment of the FS&T budget to its annual assessment. The results of their analysis of the FS&T budget are presented in Appendix B and can also be seen at http://www.aaas.org.
COSEPUP is now publishing its assessment of the FS&T budget in AAAS's annual R&D report. The assessment is chapter 6 of AAAS's Intersociety Working Group report, AAAS Report XXIII: Research and Development FY 1999. This provides a "one-stop" assessment of the research budget and should be useful for members of Congress, the administration, federal agencies that support research, disciplinary societies, researchers, and all others involved and interested in the investment in research made by this nation.
The committee acknowledges the invaluable information and opinions received from the participants in its planning meeting for this activity held in December 1997.
The production of the report was the result of hard work by the committee as a whole and by the extra efforts of the Guidance Group chaired by Jim Duderstadt.
The project was aided by the invaluable help of COSEPUP professional staff—Deborah D. Stine, study director, and Patrick P. Sevcik, research associate; its consultant, Michael McGeary; and editor Norman Grosblatt. A special thank you goes also to the AAAS staff of Al Teich and Kei Koizumi for their advice and analysis.
PHILLIP A. GRIFFITHS, CHAIR
COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, ENGINEERING,
AND PUBLIC POLICY
Figures, Tables, and Boxes
FIGURES
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Trends in FS&T, FY 1994–1999 budget authority for total FS&T (conduct and facilities), millions of constant FY 1998 dollars |
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FS&T budget, by agency, FY 1994–FY 2003 |
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R&D vs. FS&T vs. RFFA budgets (in billions of 1999 dollars) |
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RFFA vs. FS&T, FY 1999 (billions of dollars) |
TABLES
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Percentage Change in FS&T Budget, FY 1994–FY 2003 |
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Real Percent Changes in Federal Obligations by Field, FY 1993–1997 |
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Trends in FS&T, FY 1994–FY 1999, Budget Authority for Total FS&T (Conduct and Facilities), in Millions of Constant FY 1998 Dollars |
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A-2: |
FS&T Budget by Agency, FY 1994–FY 2003 (in millions of constant 1998 dollars) |
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A-3: |
FS&T vs. RFFA, FY 1999 (millions of dollars) |
BOXES
