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An analysis of the current federal F&D budget is presented, including the defense and non-defense R&D. Trends are analyzed, including estimates for FY00 based on reviews of the Administration's budget and those anticipated from Congress.
President Clinton established the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) by Executive Order on November 23, 1993. This Cabinet-level Council is the principle means for the President to coordinate science, space and technology policies across the Federal government. NSTC acts as a "virtual" agency for science and technology to coordinate the diverse parts of the Federal research and development enterprise. The NSTC is chaired by the President. Membership consists of the Vice President, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Cabinet Secretaries and Agency Heads with significant science and technology responsibilities (including the CENDI agencies), and other White House officials. The emphasis is on coordinated R&D and budget planning.This site appears to be current as of June 1997.
The paper on views and key issues to be addressed in a new science policy was prepared for the House Science Committee's National Science Policy Study. The paper briefly describes five issues or areas that warrant special attention; partnership between federal government and research and educational institutions, raising scientific and technology literacy of all citizens, plan for rapid advances in science and technology, managing the international character of science and technology, and facilitating collaboration between discipline, institutions and sectors. This paper generally documents the views and priorities of the science and technology disciplines regarding federal science policy.
This report was requested by House Speaker Newt Gingrich from the House Committee on Science, chaired by F. James, Sensenbrenner, Jr. It outlines the history of U.S. science policy, beginning with Vannevar Bush's Science: The Endless Frontier. It reconfirms the importance of basic scientific research to the security, health and economic well-being. It adds the new role of informed decision making. It calls for increased basic research, confirms the role of the federal government in funding basic research and calls for increased interdisciplinary partnerships. Education is also emphasized.
The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) was enacted in 1993 to focus attention on performance and results of government activities. This study reports on workshops was held to gather input from research agencies concerning the challenges presented by GPRA. It concludes that useful outcomes of basic research cannot always be measured directly on an annual basis. Historical reviews are necessary. However, this does not mean that there are no meaningful ways of performance measurement. There are meaningful measures that can be used to predict the success of basic research. Applied research is much more easily reported. The report also includes recommendations on how to evaluate federal research programs, how to coordinate among federal programs, and relevant human resource issues.
This report analyzes the allocation process for federally funded research and development. It considers how it might be restructured to strengthen R&D within budget constraints. Recommendations are made which include development of a more coherent budget process, striving to continue as the World's leader in science and technology, establishing a disciplined allocation process, selection of individual projects that reflect the standards of the scientific and technical community, and implementation of a structure that fosters management of R&D.
Dr. Nelson identified four major issues and policy areas in which he is working. Vision includes the education of the public to new technologies and their benefits. Research and Technology includes making technologies more reliable, more robust and more usable. In the area of Information Policy, the major efforts include intellectual property and copyright in the digital environment and telecommunications. In the area of security, the Critical Infrastructure Protection Commission was recently established. Additional discussion between Dr. Nelson and the CENDI members included a discussion of information life cycle management and preservation and archiving. Changing scientific communication practices, the CIO Council, electronic Freedom of Information Act compliance, and intellectual property and copyright.
This web site provides access to information regarding the R&D budget for the current fiscal year; a guide to R&D funding data with links to numerous charts, graphs and trend analyses; recent publications by the R&D Budget and Policy program; state and regional science funding report; science and technology policy news; and other useful links.
Proceedings from a briefing hosted by AAAS and Federal Focus, Inc. on the amendment to the Office of Management and Budget's Circular A-110 (Freedom of Information Act) which requires public availability of data produced under an award by the government. The program for the workshop is presented with links to the texts of the presentations. A copy of the letters to OMB and to Congress are also available.
This web site reports on the public colloquium on secrecy versus open exchange held at MIT on March 29, 1999. Links are provided to the program, speakers' biographies, presentations, and related selected readings.
Monthly online newsletter covering science and technology related activities in Congress.
In response to a request from several federal science agencies, the NRC undertook a study to review the issues surrounding private rights and public access and interest to scientific and technical databases. The group reviewed the creation, production and dissemination of these databases from the government, commercial and not-for-profit sectors. A variety of examples within the sciences were reviewed. The report takes a specific look at the pending Database Protection legislation at that time, and the European Database Directive with these issues in mind.
This Circular establishes policy for the management of Federal information resources and includes procedural and analytic guidelines for implementing specific aspects of these polices. The policies apply to the information activities of all agencies of the executive branch of the Federal government. The Circular gives the background for establishing policies, provides definitions and basic considerations and assumptions and explains the Information Management Policy. This Circular rescinds the following OMB Memoranda M-96-20; M-97-02; M-97-15; and M-97-16. The Transmittal provides updated guidance on improving the management and acquisition of information technology to directly support agency strategic missions, as well as the implementation of an investment review process that drives budget formulation and execution.
This report submitted by the A-130 Implementation Guidelines Group for Scientific and Technical Information, is an analysis of OMB Circular A-130 as it applies to Scientific and Technical Information (STI). In this analysis the Group suggests a redefinition of life-cycle planning that would be better suited to information content management and would support a wide variety of agency missions. The following recommendations were made by the Group: Clarify "life-cycle planning" for information usability; Develop guidelines to ensure information integrity for the public good; Clarify guidance concerning public access to agency information; Resolve conflicts between A-130 objectives and those of other Government initiatives; Sponsor an effort to develop a selected mode of operation for Government information services; and Institutionalize interagency cooperative efforts for information sharing. A definition of Scientific and Technical Information (STI) is also provided.
Due to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, AAAS provided this special publication from their April 2002 Colloquium on Science and Technology Policy. The chapters represent six colloquium presentations with specific relevance to the scientific and technical community in the post-September 11th environment. The chapters cover the risks research universities may face with proposed policy changes; how the relationship between science and government has changed and the role of science and technology in countering terrorism; the dangers of bioterrorism, what government is doing to prevent future attacks, and the problems the research community faces; information security problems; the psychology of risk, risk analysis, and risk communication; and what impacts September 11th had on research universities.
This Brief summarizes the R&D budgets for the following agencies: USDA, DOE, DOD, NASA, NSF, DOC, DOI, DOT and EPA. These agencies account for 98% of federal R&D spending. The proposed basic research budget is a 7% increase over FY2000. The increase for civilian R&D is 6.2% over last year, while the Defense R&D remained flat. A significant increase was also requested in new or existing multi-agency, multi-discipline initiatives. University based R&D would increase by 7.8%. The Federal Research Investment Act which proposes increased funding for civilian research and development by 0.3% annually to realize a total of 10 percent of the Fedeal discretionary budget by FY2010 passed the Senate on 9/22/2000. This legislation also proposes doubling the R&D funding for the 16 selected agencies included in the bill by FY2011.
At the September 7-8, 2005, CENDI meeting, Dr. Fryberger discussed the emergence of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), which advises the President. Dr. Fryberger outlined many of the projects that OSTP is working on and the need for greater collaboration.
This panel at the September 7-8, 2005, CENDI meeting covers several topics: use of search tools for R & D; value of exhibits in generating interest; use of expert panels; and use of geographic metadata.
At the August 11-12, 2004, CENDI Dr. Pazzani discussed the role of the NSF in improving information management. He then discussed the need for collaboration along with finding ways of utilitzing the results of work done by the NSF.
At the August 11-12, 2004, CENDI meeting, Ms. Frierson and Mr. Lahr discussed the status of Science.gov. In addition, they outlined future goals of the web portal and made a request for more partnerships in order to enhance the portal's offerings.
This report outlines how Canadian research organizations need to take advantage of emerging technologies to continue to be competitive internationally. The paper also makes recommendations in addition to examining how the scientific world has been impacted by recent information technology improvement
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