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Introduction
Pages 9-12

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... In 1995, a National Research Council committee chaired by former National Academy of Sciences President Frank Press observed that historically DOD had provided the majority of federal funding for academic research and training in electrical engineering, metallurgy and materials, and computer science, and DOE was the largest federal contributor to materials science through its national laboratories. The committee said that all science and engineering depend critically on those fields, and cuts in Department of Defense and Department of Energy programs made for other purposes might well have significant and inadvertent impacts on diverse research and development programs conducted in many other agencies and having clear importance to the country.3 Unless otherwise specified, all funding numbers in this report have been converted to constant (1999)
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... TRENDS IN FEDERAL SUPPORT OF RESEARCH AND GRADUATE EDUCATION enables examination of federal agencies' spending on nearly two dozen research fields in FY 1998 and FY 1999 and their reasonably reliable estimates for FY 2000 by major field of research. Surprisingly, however, none of these data have been reported in the NSF's publications of science and technology statistics Science and Engineering Indicators, National Patterns of R&D Resources, or, with few exceptions, SRS' periodic Data Briefs.7 Nor does the American Association for the Advancement of Science examine the subject of field allocation in its annual analyses of the current fiscal year federal R&D budget.
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... Chapter 1 reviews aggregate support, while Chapter 2 addresses trends in federal support by field. Field trends in graduate education support are examined in Chapter 3, and 11 agency trends in research and graduate education support in Chapter 4.
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... 12 60 50 40 30 20 10O-10 — -20 — -30 — TRENDS IN FEDERAL SUPPORT OF RESEARCH AND GRADUA TE EDUCE TION Federal Non-Federal .
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