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Observations on the President's FY 2002 Federal Science and Technology Budget
Observations on the President's FY 2002 Federal Science and Technology Budget
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Accordingly, the federal government remains a critical source of funds for research that creates new knowledge and enabling technologies and provides the underpinning for the annlicntinn~ fueling a growing high-tech economy. rim = ~^ 'A ~re~~ Given the continuing role of federal funding in meeting our nation's goals for advancing science and technology, Allocating Federal Funds specifically recommended that the President and Congress should ensure that federal spending on science and technology is both sufficient and targeted.
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The new Administration's fiscal year 2002 budget proposal represents an important opportunity for institutionalizing an annual, concerted focus on the nation's plans for investing in science and technology. In its budget proposal, the Bush Administration has continued the practice of including a science and technology crosscut in its budget proposal, modifying the 2 ~ st Century Research Fund further and renaming it the "Federal Science and Technology Budget." In doing so, moreover, the Bush Administration cited the recommendation in Allocating Federal Funds for highlighting "more consistently and accurately activities central to the creation of new knowledge and technologies" as the justification for including the FS&T budget in its budget proposal.~° Figure ~ and Table ~ compare the National Academies' tabulation of the FS&T Budget ($59.5 billion)
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The philosophical underpinnings and methods of tabulations used by the Academies and the two A~rninistrations have been converging over time. It is in the interest of both sound science policy and an effective budgetary process that the science and engineering community and the Administration adopt one method of tabulating the Federal Science and Technology Budget.
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Previous volumes in this series of annual Observations have expressed concern about our ability to meet these goals, given the overall size of the federal investment in S&T and differing rates of growth in agency S&T budgets and their impact on Finding across the range of science and engineering disciplines. As seen in Table 2 and Figure 2, the overall size of the FS&T budget decreased annually In constant dollars Tom FY 1994 to FY 1996, before turning up in FY 1997.~i The Academies method of tabulating FS&T shows that the FS&T budget only surpassed its FY 1994 level in FY 1999.
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This compares to an average annual increase of 4.5 percent from FY 1996 to FY 2001. This increase is also less than the overall increase in discretionary spending requested by the Bush Administration (4.0 percent in current dollars; I.9 percent in constant dollars)
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FS&T at NASA would decrease 1.7 percent; at DOE by 6.S percent; at Commerce and Agnculture by 9.5 and 9.9 percent respectively. The FS&T Budget and National Goals The Administration developed its FY 2002 budget so that it would address key national goals articulated by the President during last fall's presidential campaign: enacting a $~.6 trillion tax cut, holding discretionary spending to an overall increase of four percent, and funding Administration initiatives in education, biomedical research, and defense.
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The Administration notes, for example, that the NSF budget would be ~ 5 percent larger, in current dollars, in FY 2002 compared with FY 2000.2° This would be an increase of 10 percent in constant dollars over the two-year period, even with a decrease of 0.8 percent from FY 2001 to FY 2002. However, the Administration's budget, developed in a time of transition from one Administration to another and from the presidential campaign to governance, may require adjustments to bring proposed FS&T spending more closely in line with national goals in such diverse areas as national security, energy, environmental protection, and excellence in science.
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One of the key reasons for sustaining global leadership in science and technology is to generate further such opportunities and sustain economic growth and global competitiveness as well as meet our goals in national security, energy, the environment, and health. Since we cannot predict which investments made today in science and technology will result in the key technologies and innovations of the future, this suggests a pattern of broadly supporting science and technology across fields, particularly in the area of basic research where the federal government plays a central funding role.
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