Sentences with phrase «research agency budgets»

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Even so, the increase for nondefense discretionary spending — a category that covers just about every research agency including NIH, NASA, and the National Science Foundation — is the largest since the original caps were first put in place in 2011 through the Budget Control Act.

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The below charts and tables present a range of federal R&D data series, including research budgets by agency, character and discipline.

Its 2014 and 2015 budgets made debilitating cuts to both basic and applied research agencies, and research - industry collaborations.

As mentioned in yesterday's quick summary, the Trump Administration's full budget request is seeking historically large cutbacks in federal science and technology programs, particularly to basic and applied research (see table at right; updated on June 6 with additional agency data).

In comparison, the President's FY 2018 budget had proposed deep cuts to research agencies including NIH, DOE, and NSF.

... [L] egislators added $ 53 million to the agency's large new facilities account to begin building three regional - class research vessels rather than the two NSF had requested,» but the «research and education accounts were held flat, at $ 6.033 billion and $ 880 million, respectively, as was the agency's internal operating budget.

The Senate Appropriations Committee's approval July 20 of its fiscal 2018 Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill, for instance, would restore spending for the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy and reverse the proposal to eliminate the program as outlined in the president's fiscal 2018 budget plan.

A large proposed cut to the Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) could impact applied research and the level of engagement in international activities, according to agency budget documents.

The NIH budget includes $ 65 million for the agency's portion of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative — a $ 25 - million increase over 2014, but much less than NIH's wished - for $ 400 million to $ 500 million per year for the program.

We encourage the next secretary of Energy to build on this recognition by preparing a budget request that supports the diverse portfolio of research programs within the agency.

Assuming the winner didn't capture a majority of the vote, second place would have been good enough to get Westin into a May runoff for the chance to unseat Representative John Culberson, a nine - term Republican who chairs a spending panel that shapes the budgets of several federal research agencies.

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.

At a Senate hearing yesterday on DOE's budget, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz noted that the agency has requested increases in funding for energy storage research and development through its Office of Electricity and through its Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy division.

NSF: A $ 113 million increase proposed for the agency's $ 4.2 billion research budget hides a $ 48 million transfer from the U.S. Coast Guard to take on the annual cost of breaking ice to keep the shipping lanes open in the Antarctic.

Bush's warning that research agencies should prepare for budget reductions reflects real economics.

Hanging over the effective decrease in support proposed by the House of Representatives last week is the «sequester», a pre-programmed budget cut that research advocates say would starve US science - funding agencies.

It is of grave concern to the research community that President Trump's budget proposal — which would fund the agency at a 15 - year low — values investments in defense above all other federal expenditures.»

The bill specifically requires NIH director Francis Collins to spend 90 % of the agency's budget on extramural activities, 10 % on intramural activities and at least 55 % on basic science, and instructs the agency to maintain at least 16,670 training research awards (a category intended for doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows).

NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), one of the agency's primary research arms, would see its budget drop by 22 %, from $ 514 million to $ 400 million, under the pResearch (OAR), one of the agency's primary research arms, would see its budget drop by 22 %, from $ 514 million to $ 400 million, under the presearch arms, would see its budget drop by 22 %, from $ 514 million to $ 400 million, under the proposal.

The Washington, D.C. — based group said in a statement: «The extreme funding cuts to science agencies and related programs included in the budget released today would harm America's research enterprise and our nation's leadership in scientific discovery.

«It seems that this budget is put together on the basis of ideology and imaginary economics rather than hard facts about... what research is productive according to the agencies where the research is funded and done,» Holt said.

► «The congressional noose around research in the social sciences and the geosciences at [NSF] got pulled a little tighter today as an influential legislator unveiled a new and controversial budget metric as part of his blueprint for the agency,» Mervis wrote Thursday at ScienceInsider.

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The proposal also calls for deep cuts to the research programs at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and a 5 % cut to NASA's earth science budget.

The proposed budget for NSF will reverse the basic research agency's growth to fiscal year 2007 levels.

During his time at the agency, Garcia ran five programmes on research such as morphing aircraft and exoskeletons, managing a budget of $ 20 to 30 million a year.

The White House wants to slash nearly half the budget of EPA's Office of Research and Development, which does most of agency's science work

Trump's 2018 budget request also proposed moving one of these agencies, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), into NIH.

• On Tuesday, Jeffrey Mervis reported that buried inside the White House's essentially flat budget proposal for the National Science Foundation (NSF) is a $ 2000 a year increase in stipends for the agency's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).

«Although the bill's sponsors say that sets the stage for doubling DOE's science budget, including that of the agency's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), at that rate the doubling would take more than 17 agency's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), at that rate the doubling would take more than 17 Agency - Energy (ARPA - E), at that rate the doubling would take more than 17 years.

But the budgets of several research agencies would shrink by a few percentage points, or remain at existing levels.

Trump's FY 2019 budget proposal, released February 12, includes a last - minute addendum that would keep science spending roughly at 2017 levels for some major research agencies, including NIH, NSF and the Department of Energy Office of Science.

This lesser known science agency has long surfed under the radar of budget watchers, in part because its budget of less than $ 1 billion made it small by Washington standards, and because it supports research on scientific and industrial standards.

That sounds like a hefty increase for a domestic research agency when the economy is in a slump, a war against Iraq looms, and the budget deficit is growing.

They would slash the agency's budget by 31 percent, eliminate 3,200 EPA positions out of about 15,000 and reduce its Office of Research and Development budget by almost half.

At the same time, the budget for the department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will dip by 1 %, to $ 2.87 billion.

Predictably, most of the government funding opportunities in GrantsNet come from the agencies with the largest research budgets: the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and NASA.

The bill preserves the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which funds studies to improve health care delivery, but trims its budget 8 %, to $ 334 million.

He was also a staunch supporter of the European Research Council (ERC), the European Union's beloved funding agency for basic research, which started giving out grants in 2007 and had a $ 1.8 billion budget laResearch Council (ERC), the European Union's beloved funding agency for basic research, which started giving out grants in 2007 and had a $ 1.8 billion budget laresearch, which started giving out grants in 2007 and had a $ 1.8 billion budget last year.

Climate change research also got a warm reception — a 6 % spending increase spread out over 13 agencies — and NASA was excited to find a plan to kidnap a small asteroid in its budget proposal.

Between 2019 and 2016, the Administration's enacted and proposed budgets would add $ 42.6 billion to the 2008 budgets for these basic research agencies, with a special emphasis on encouraging high - risk, high - return research and supporting researchers at the beginning of their careers.

Science Business has a long chat with Fotis C. Kafatos, the president of the European Research Council, about how the young funding agency is doing and his hopes that it will relatively soon have a budget approaching the $ 30 billion or so that the U.S. National Institutes of Health spends annually.

After hearing rumors in Australia that there would be Aus $ 400 million cut from the National Health and Medical Research Council budget, researchers mounted a vigorous protest campaign that was successful in maintaining current spending for the major research aResearch Council budget, researchers mounted a vigorous protest campaign that was successful in maintaining current spending for the major research aresearch agencies.

The proposal also calls for deep cuts to the research programs at the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and a 5 % cut to NASA's earth science budget.

The Trump administration's fiscal 2018 budget proposal, which Congress must approve, would sharply reduce and in some cases eliminate funding for science programs at the Environmental Protection Agency, climate - related science research programs at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and cut in half research and development programs at the Energy Department.

Last year his budget requested $ 90 million to create an Advanced Research Projects Agency - Education (ARPA - ED).

Because the allocation is proportionate to the agency's overall research budget, the Department of Defense is by far the biggest contributor, providing about half of the total funding.

Each agency that spends more than $ 100 million a year on research allocates 2.5 % of its budget to the SBIR program, and 0.3 % to STTR.

Funding for three Smithsonian research centers would be transferred next year to the National Science Foundation (NSF) under a White House budget strategy aimed at rewarding agencies for their management prowess.