Sentences with phrase «long federal research program»

But as the recent court case shows, it is not sturdy enough to support a multimillion - dollar, decades - long federal research program.

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In February Bush directed heads of federal agencies to assist technological enterprise through a long - standing government - wide program that subsidizes private - sector research under the Small Business Administration.

And it tweaks the rules governing existing activities, from the fledgling Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy at DOE to long - running training programs at NSF, with the goal of getting a bigger economic payoff from federal investments.

It is the product of a long and contentious debate in Congress that included efforts to eliminate the Transportation Enhancements program (TEP), which for about 2 decades has required states to spend a small portion of their federal transport funds on 12 types of activities, including bike and walking paths, but also «archaeological planning & research,» and «environmental mitigation.»

EPA would no longer contribute to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, a multiagency task force that coordinates federal research on globalResearch Program, a multiagency task force that coordinates federal research on globalresearch on global change.

The NEFSC passive acoustics research program, together with support from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and a number of federal agencies, are creating the technological infrastructure for NEPAN to address long - term monitoring and mitigation needs for endangered marine mammals and fish.

A particularly powerful thread, the importance of the Pentagon as a driver of innovation and market for effective energy technology, emerged in an earlier discussion involving three of the top figures in the federal government focused on advancing energy choices that will work for the long haul — Cathy Zoi, assistant secretary of energy for energy efficiency and renewable energy, Arun Majumdar, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, and Jeffrey Marqusee, who runs environmental research and development programs for the Department of Research Projects Agency - Energy, and Jeffrey Marqusee, who runs environmental research and development programs for the Department of research and development programs for the Department of Defense.

Then, Dave Hasemyer learned from scientist Michael MacCracken, who had long helped run federal climate research programs, that Exxon scientists had worked with the government on climate science as far back as the early 1980s.

While we don't have it all by a long shot, we counted some $ 1.7 billion in private donations over the last few years to support stem cell research, most of it to establish stem cell programs free of federal funding restrictions at a number of different universities and other research institutions.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision, following Fukushima, to abandon nuclear development was possible because early offshore wind projects developed under a stable, long - term federal feed - in tariff program proved the engineering practicality, and because Germany's comprehensive RAVE research program proved both the North Sea's resource potential and the wind industry's technology are ready to join other renewables in meeting German electricity demand.