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Provided below are the highlights of the FS&T budget: · In constant FY 1999 dollars, the President's budget request would increase FS&T investments by just 0.4 percent from FY 1999 to FY 2000. In current dollars the President's budget represents a 2.4 percent increase from $48.3 billion in FY 1999 to $49.4 billion in FY 2000.
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It appears that budgets for mission agencies for FY 1999 and FY 2000 would continue this trend. · The President's budget proposes $366 million in new funding for Information Technology for the 21st Century which directs funding toward fundamental, long-term research, advanced applications, and research on the economic and social implications of information technology.
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R&D funding normally includes personnel, program-supervision, and adm~nistrative-support costs directly associated with R&D activities; laboratory equipment is also included. Defense R&D includes testing, evaluation, prototype development, and other activities that precede production (RDT&E)
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For example, the FS&T budget includes DOD "6.3" and DOE's atomic weapons science activities whereas the 21 St Century Fund does not (see appendix A, table Am. 50 45 u, 4o 35 30 |
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Funding for the physical sciences relies heavily on DOD, NASA, and DOE, which together provide 33 percent of the federal funding for basic research. Additionally, DOD provides a large fraction of all computer science research funding and graduate education support.
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For example, discoveries in the physical sciences led to development, many years later, of magnetic resonance imaging, an important breakthrough in the biomedical sciences. The nation must be positioned to benefit from the numerous opportunities that the life sciences offer as well as ensure that all broad fields of science and engineering remain vital.
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of Health and Human Services 1997 1998 1999 2000 percent Change Fiscal Year Actual Actual Estimated Proposed FY 1997-FY 2000 Current $ 5,554 5,516 5,653 5,920 6.6 Constant$ 5,693 5,588 5,653 5,804 1.9 Department of Defense only 1997 1998 1999 2000 percent Change Fiscal Year Actual Actual Estimated Proposed FY 1997-FY 2000 Current $ 1,310 1,053 931 936 -28.5 Constant $ 1,343 1,067 931 918 -31.7 Source: Figures for 1998-2000 from AAAS, Table I-7; figures for 1997 earned forward from Observations on the President's FY 1999 Federal Science & Technology Budget. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY A major priority of the President's FY 2000 budget is Information Technology for the 21St Century.
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The Department of Education would receive $25 million for the agency's contribution from the Education Research Initiative, a collaborative activity with NSF directed at large-scale research focused on the best approaches to raising student achievement in K-3. The Department of Agriculture's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service would receive $200 million for the National Research Initiative (NRI)
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Recent increases in NSF funding cannot begin to compensate for the declines in funding of mission agencies. Such an unbalanced investment strategy will undermine two primary goals of our national research enterprise: that the United States perform at least at world-class levels in all major fields of science and engineering and that the United States should seek preeminence in a select number of fields.4 For more information, see the COSEPUP Web site at http: llwww2.
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