Sentences with phrase «federal science agencies»

And the delay was good news for many federal science agencies.

It's telling that the new climate engineering report didn't come via request from federal science agencies.

But with the budget boosts for federal science agencies provided by 2009's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act drying up in 2011, science advocates are concerned that Obama's funding freeze may spell the steep budgetary drop - off in the next fiscal year that many dread.Image: US Senate»

As does every new president, Trump gets to fill out the ranks of federal science agencies with political appointees, from the agency chiefs who require Senate confirmation to lower - level bureaucrats.

As federal science agencies continue to recover from the 2013 sequestration funding cuts, every major science agency's budget is above or very near pre-sequestration levels in the current fiscal year.

Unlike other federal science agencies, NOAA hasn't been authorized by law.

As Underwood explained, «[f] rom time to time, Congress asks federal science agencies to prepare an expert «bypass budget» that lays out the funding the agency thinks is necessary to meet an important goal.

Just days after the midterm elections, a report from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a related story in The New York Times examined what would happen to federal science agencies if the GOP carried through on their planned budget cuts.

And Culberson, who chairs a spending subcommittee that sets the budgets for several federal science agencies, is not without his own considerable resources, including the backing of a national Republican Party desperate to retain his seat.

Despite some grumbling, today's NSF announcement marks a milestone: It means that essentially all of the major U.S. federal science agencies now have a public - access policy.

They say that federal science agencies already go to great lengths to make their peer - review system transparent, to attract fresh reviewers, and to provide plenty of feedback to those whose proposals are not funded.

This is what Larry Marshall, the chief executive of Australia's federal science agency CSIRO, wrote in an email to staff earlier this month:

The government shutdown that threatened the nation's scientific enterprise, interrupting activities of federal science agencies, ended Monday evening.

Taking a cue from federal science agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Agency, the guidelines call for standing panels of reviewers to screen many of the research proposals funded by the Education Department's primary research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences.

The bipartisan budget deal reached in late October offers some much - needed relief for federal science agencies, but it remains a temporary fix for programs hit by the spending caps known as «sequestration ``, which took effect in 2013.

Indeed, the House and Senate rejected significant cuts in funding to federal science agencies that President Donald Trump had proposed for fiscal 2018.

BUDGET BLUEPRINT The Trump administration's budget proposal for fiscal year 2018 calls for sharp cuts to many federal science agencies and programs.

The deal, announced late last night, will still have to be approved by Congress, but if it does become law, it should be a boon to federal science agencies, which have been dealing with relatively modest appropriations this summer.

Removing the across - the - board spending caps known as «sequestration» to achieve modest increases for federal science agencies is a «strategic imperative,» George Washington University President Steven Knapp and AAAS CEO Rush D. Holt wrote this week in Roll Call.

The three - day government shutdown that threatened the nation's scientific enterprise, interrupting activities of federal science agencies, came to an end Monday evening after the Senate and House each passed a stopgap spending package to fund the government for three weeks.

The White House will not make a formal statement about the bill until it is scheduled for debate on the House floor «but you shouldn't take the silence officially up until now as assent,» Holdren said, adding «I will make clear my personal opinion that the COMPETES act is bad for science, bad for scientists and engineers, and bad for the federal science agencies that would be authorized by the bill.

In the United States, for instance, federal science agencies have moved to require researchers and journals to make government - funded papers freely available within a year of publication, although many agencies are still working out the details.

«[T] he Federal science agencies should receive sustained and steady growth in funding for research and development activities, including basic research, across a wide range of disciplines, including... [the] social, behavioral, and economic sciences,» declares the 146 - page Senate bill, titled the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2014.

««In my personal opinion, the COMPETES bill as it now stands is bad for science, it's bad for scientists and engineers, bad for the federal science agencies, and damaging to the world - leading U.S. scientific enterprise,» Holdren told the Washington, D.C., audience.»

It calls for deep cuts to some federal science agencies (read our initial coverage to get some of the numbers), and is likely to draw fierce opposition from the scientific community and many lawmakers in Congress.

Overall, the deal staves off major cuts for federal science agencies that Trump had requested last month.

The federal science agency will provide $ 855,668 to the researchers, who will explore ways that computers and other «information - handling technologies»...

The federal science agency's decision has been met with criticism and disdain, as the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) blasted the move as a «backward» step that would leave Australia isolated.