Sentences with phrase «civilian research»

That's because they would, if implemented, squeeze federal funding for civilian research over the long term.

Military lasers could probably cut it, but they are difficult to access for civilian research.

Since 1978, the United States and other nations have been pushing to eliminate highly enriched uranium (HEU)-- which a terrorist or rogue nation could use to make a bomb — as fuel in civilian research reactors.

If approved by the U.S. Senate, the trio will round out Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz's leadership team for DOE's civilian research programs, which include 10 national laboratories run by the Office of Science.

Dozens of civilian research reactors have closed or converted from HEU — uranium enriched to at least 20 % of the fissile isotope U-235 — to safer low enriched uranium (LEU), including 28 since 2009.

To make up for a federal deficit of more than $ 400 billion, the White House has ordered most civilian research agencies to prepare for major budget reductions in the 2006 budget, including cuts for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

The portal has been managed by the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF), with some $ 2 million in funding from the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and other agencies.

Kerry's campaign pronouncements and literature paint a different and somewhat rosier picture of the federal civilian research outlook, as befits a liberal Senator whose home - state constituents include thousands of scientists working at such federal - funding magnets as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and Boston University.

With more than 31,000 researchers, engineers, and technicians working in all scientific disciplines and the humanities, CNRS has an annual budget of $ 3.2 billion, a quarter of French public spending on civilian research.

Meanwhile, virtually all growth in federal research spending has been consigned to bioterrorism, homeland security, and defense, leaving civilian research at a standstill.

But U.S. officials have long held that the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea specifically allows military ships to conduct research cruises within a nation's EEZ (although civilian research cruises need to get permission from the host country).

Many civilian research reactors contain highly enriched uranium that terrorists could use to build nuclear bombs

The cut affects the Interministerial Commission for Research and Higher Education (MIRES), which is made up of ten funding programs covering most of France's public, civilian research efforts, and financed by six ministry departments.

They point out that Japan and Germany have already begun civilian research programmes devoted to exploring the potential of laser fusion for generating power.

Just as a reminder of how un-invested the United States is in energy inquiry, I can't resist republishing a graph that has become an icon here on Dot Earth — a portrait of half a century of federal investment in basic civilian research and development (provided by Kei Koizumi of the Office of Science and Technology Policy):

Of course, there's a lot that Trump has not talked about, including almost all of the government's $ 70 billion investment in civilian research.

But the spending blueprint, which would have to be approved by Congress, highlights the financial pressures that civilian research agencies will face as Trump and the Republican majority in both houses of Congress attempt to carry out campaign promises to raise defense spending while reining in the rest of federal spending.

Dukhovlinova has been supported by the various institutional grants that the research programs at the Biomedical Center have attracted — from two U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) institutes, the U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation, and the Russian Ministry of Science — but between grants she has had to work as a translator to support herself.

This is the first time an American nuclear submarine has been used for civilian research.

The base is also home to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Test Center, a civilian research station established in 1946 to develop new aerospace designs, including the X-1, the craft Yeager piloted.

Swalwell is also the ranking member of its subcommittee on energy, which oversees the Department of Energy's civilian research, development and demonstration programs that are vital to discovering clean, sustainable sources of energy.

Yet civilian research and development continued as people looked ahead (longingly) to the end of the war.

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

The United States concentrates its civilian research in universities, with projects funded mainly by competitive grants awarded to individual faculty members.

The agency has been converted to a civilian research program, and many former weapons experts in Russia are engaged in joint medical research with American scientists.

The agreement, announced on 10 December, provides $ 22 billion more in 2014 for the slice of the federal budget that supports all civilian research than would have been available if sequestration had stayed in place.

«There is no target for government funding of R&D as a percentage of GDP, no encouragement for industry to increase its spending and no attempt to transfer funds from defence to civilian research.»

Military research got a much higher boost than civilian research.

Even its proposal to clamp down hard on discretionary spending, the category under which all civilian research is funded, wouldn't necessarily translate into automatic reductions for federally funded science.

MHRP executes PEPFAR programs around its civilian research sites in East Africa and Nigeria and with militaries in Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria.

-- The Secretary, in consultation with other appropriate agencies, shall support a civilian research program to develop advanced membrane technology that is used in the separation of gases from applications, including those that --