Sentences with phrase «federal research and development»

Meanwhile, Trump has also talked about zeroing out all federal research and development for clean energy, which would include work the Department of Energy is doing on solar, wind, nuclear power, efficiency, electric cars, batteries, and more, including the cutting - edge research being done at ARPA - E.
The committee recommended federal research and development investment to improve methods of carbon dioxide removal and disposal at scales that would have a significant global climate impact.
One way to consider the question is to look back at the gush of federal research and development dollars that underpinned the actual space race (and led to a string of innovations that NASA says have produced far greater economic benefits than the research cost).
Meantime, he should phase out taxpayer subsidies over which the Administration has some control — for example, increasing the fossil industry cost - share for federal research and development and bringing U.S. royalty and lease rates up to the levels charged by other nations.
In last week's State of the Union address, Obama promised more federal research and development dollars to fund more efficient vehicles but again emphasized his goal for 1 million EVs on the road by 2015.
The Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982 (P.L. 97 - 219), reauthorizing legislation (P.L. 99 - 443) and P.L. 102 - 564 (Small Business Research and Development Act), encourages the effective use of small business in meeting federal research and development objectives.
At the same time, policymakers should boost federal research and development (R&D) investments to provide state leaders with more and better information about international best practices, and should help states develop streamlined assessment strategies that facilitate cost - effective international comparisons of student performance.
Presidential Science Adviser John Holdren testified to the committee yesterday about the FY2014 budget request for federal research and development (R&D).
On February 17, 2011, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee held a hearing on President Obama's FY2012 budget request for federal research and development (R&D) programs.
The spending cuts known as «sequestration» that were triggered in March sliced $ 9.3 billion from federal research and development projects, according to an analysis from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
«Federal research and development as a share of gross domestic product has declined from 1.25 % of GDP to 0.82 % of GDP today, which is a near 40 - year low,» said Holt.
«We believe such a drastic reduction to OSTP's budget will dramatically inhibit the ability of the federal government to coordinate, prioritize and manage the federal research and development (R&D) effort,» Leshner wrote.
We hope that Congress will continue on a bipartisan path toward a final omnibus bill for fiscal year 2018 and urge members to raise the budget caps for discretionary spending, which is how the majority of federal research and development is funded,» said Holt in a statement.
After the Senate's failure to pass a short - term spending measure late Friday triggered the first government shutdown since October 2013, Holt outlined the implications on federal research and development spending.
The plan, if executed, would cut more than $ 8 billion in federal research and development from what Obama had proposed for 2011, according to the AAAS analysis.
AAAS» R&D Budget and Policy Program has been providing independent analyses of federal research and development programs for more than 40 years.
AAAS sent a letter to the incoming leadership and Appropriations Committee chairs, urging them to support federal research and development funding as they complete the Fiscal Year 2007 appropriations process.
Recipients of these grants are required to meet federal research and development goals, and have a high potential for commercialization.

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The company was in the midst of negotiating a new round of financing and awaiting a cheque from the federal government's Scientific Research and Experimental Development program — both of which eventually came through.
The Conference Board notes that the federal government has placed great emphasis in improving Canada's innovation performance for years, most directly in the 2012 budget's revamping of how $ 3.5 billion is doled out to firms under the Scientific Research and Experimental Development program.
Gekko Systems co-founder Elizabeth Lewis - Gray has been appointed chair of a new «mining growth centre», which is part of a $ 189 million federal government initiative designed to encourage commercially - focused research and development activity.
DesRosiers also believes the federal government is failing to invest sufficiently in research and development, and this at a time when the U.S. has set highly aggressive fuel efficiency targets that demand much more innovation.
It's also going to require stable policy from federal and state governments and corporate leadership with research and development.
But Lesko's lists pertain mostly to small business: you'll find information on agencies that give development assistance to expanding companies, economic reports that regional Federal Reserve banks will send you, government surplus - property auctions, whom to ask about overseas selling, how to find financial data on a company or franchisor, where to apply for research grants — in sum, information on the offerings of nearly every federal, state, and local bureaucracy in the cFederal Reserve banks will send you, government surplus - property auctions, whom to ask about overseas selling, how to find financial data on a company or franchisor, where to apply for research grants — in sum, information on the offerings of nearly every federal, state, and local bureaucracy in the cfederal, state, and local bureaucracy in the country.
While the Obama administration put commercial leasing on hold, then, elsewhere in the federal government people have been feverishly researching ways to facilitate the development of America's oilsands and oil shale.
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2 Innovation Canada: A Call to Action, Review of Federal Support to Research and Development — Expert Panel, section 6, «Overview of the SR&ED Program», October 17, 2011.
There's also $ 400 million over five years, starting next year, for Sustainable Development Technology Canada's very effective SD Tech Fund, and over $ 400 million (over four years, starting in 2017) to a mix of federal departments for research and development aimed at clean energy, clean transportation and cleaner resource dDevelopment Technology Canada's very effective SD Tech Fund, and over $ 400 million (over four years, starting in 2017) to a mix of federal departments for research and development aimed at clean energy, clean transportation and cleaner resource ddevelopment aimed at clean energy, clean transportation and cleaner resource developmentdevelopment.
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The Federal Government will spend almost $ 1.1 billion in the next four years to promote business - based research, development and innovation.
Member companies employ 1.4 million Canadians, account for more than half the value of the Toronto Stock Exchange, contribute the largest share of federal corporate taxes, and are responsible for most of Canada's exports, corporate philanthropy, and private - sector investments in research and development.
«To have the federal government commit to research and development, to programs that are currently in place, is important and sends a strong signal to Bombardier and to the other players in the aerospace industry that the federal government is there to support this industry,» Bellemare said.
While innovation is a broad term, the questions outline potential federal measures, including support for the tech sector, research and development and encouraging geographical clusters of expertise.
Our 150 member companies employ 1.7 million Canadians, account for more than half the value of the Toronto Stock Exchange, contribute the largest share of federal corporate taxes, and are responsible for most of Canada's exports, corporate philanthropy, and private - sector investments in research and development.
But the country has fallen behind when it comes to federal funding for science and technology research and development, according to Lewis, the CSIS expert.
Federal support for research and development is generous and essential, but too often, government - assisted research results in patents that create jobs abroad; consider how little Apple and Microsoft technology results in U.S. - based manufacturing.
The National Institute of Mental Health, part of the Public Health Service in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, is the federal agency with major responsibility for development of mental health services, mental health research, training, and continuing education for all types of professional and subprofessional manpower.
IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).
The Austrian Federal Institute for Education Research, Innovation and Development of the Austrian School System (BIFIE) recommends Steiner Waldorf schools as models for teaching in the sciences.
Additional funding partners include the City of Yonkers, TCB, MHACY, RBC Capital Markets, M&T Bank, The Bank of New York Mellon, Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, New York State Energy Research Development Authority, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Blair Horner, of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said that the law has served as a distraction in a year when Albany has been rocked by the conviction of two former legislative leaders and a federal investigation into Cuomo's economic development projects.
Commending the Nigerian Army for responsively keying into the federal government policy of research, innovation and ensuring a politically stable nation, he said the present administration has given priority to research development through enactment of realistic policies that will re-position the armed forces towards attaining excellence.
They are Andrew Zambelli, who was secretary to Mario Cuomo before founding a communications research firm, and Howard Glaser, who also served the younger Cuomo when he was federal secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the 1990s.
The State, through the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), awarded LIPA $ 6.7 million in Federal stimulus funding which will allow LIPA to connect the solar panels installed on the carports to the Long Island electric grid.
Federal agents led Empire State Development Corp. research specialist Leonard M. Gaines from 30 S. Pearl St. on Thursday and released him pending an arraignment March 15.
Oladoyinbo, a fellow of the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development, stated this at a role - modelling programme she organised at the Federal College of Education Model Secondary School, Osiele, Abeokuta, Ogun State.
This singular focus on research arises from a longstanding funding model that uses students and postdocs as inexpensive labor on professors» grant projects while neglecting their own professional development, which leads to another question McNutt posed: Should federal and state governments consider new models for financing research?
In the United States, unlike some nations, there is no overall, separately - identified budget for research and development (R&D) and no special treatment of R&D in the federal budget.
Since 1976, AAAS has published an annual report analyzing research and development in the proposed federal budget in order to make available to the scientific and engineering communities and to policymakers timely and objective information about the Administration's plans for the coming fiscal year.
Since 1976, the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program has served as a leading source of analysis on funding and policy issues affecting federal support for research and development (R&D).
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