Total Federal R&D Funding To Continue With Steady Erosion Of Recent Years

Autor: Janice Long, Linda Raber, Wil Lepkowski, David Hanson, Bette Hileman
Rok vydání: 1996
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Zdroj: Chemical & Engineering News Archive. 74:20-25
ISSN: 2157-4936
0009-2347
Popis: For chemists and other scientists long anxious about the outlook for their federal funding, it has been a strange and worrisome budget season in the nation's capital. And it is getting stranger by the week. Congress and the Administration have yet to agree on final fiscal 1996 budgets for some key agencies—several of them major supporters of research and development. Yet, as required by law, President Clinton has come up with a proposed budget for fiscal 1997. It was presented to Congress on March 18. As with all such presidential budgetary proposals, it is largely a policy statement. But it does provide a starting point for the process of government funding for R&D and everything else. Also, as with all such budget proposals, the Office of Management & Budget (OMB)-prepared documents supporting it are voluminous, massively detailed, and singularly confusing, especially concerning R&D. However, the bottom line seems to be that total federal R&D ...
Databáze: OpenAIRE