federal r&d: a quick recap and outlook matt hourihan february 13-17, 2014 for the aaas annual...
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Federal R&D: A Quick Recap and Outlook
Matt HourihanFebruary 13-17, 2014for the AAAS Annual Meeting
AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Programhttp://www.aaas.org/spp/rd
Positive outcomes Physical Sciences did
well Defense S&T Department of Energy
Technology programs and Science
NSF facilities, EPSCoR, political science
NASA Science and Exploration
Defense contractors NIH overall
Better for translational science, IDeA, BRAIN
Environmental R&D But cuts avoided
High-performance rail
Less positive
Looking ahead… President’s budget to be released March 4, for now
Priorities: manufacturing, clean energy, climate, IT and computing, biological innovation, neuroscience, STEM Ed
Discretionary spending in FY 2015 has already been agreed And will increase hardly at all 25% of sequester reductions rolled back Beyond FY 2015: back to sequester levels
Big-picture fiscal challenges remain largely unchanged
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