Open AccessEffort continues to double budget at several science agencies
Author(s) -
Zielinski Sarah
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2007eo070004
Subject(s) - homeland security , fiscal year , administration (probate law) , public administration , political science , federal budget , national laboratory , house of representatives , national security , engineering , politics , terrorism , law , engineering physics
The Bush Administration has proposed continuing last year's American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) in the rollout of the $2.9 trillion Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 U.S. federal budget request, released on 5 February. Over a 10‐year period, ACI would double the cumulative budgets of the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology ‘core’intramural research and facilities. The initiative got off to an uneven start last year, however. Although the U.S. Congress passed FY2007 budgets for defense and homeland security, since 1 October 2006 all other departments and agencies have been operating under a series of continuing resolutions. These resolutions provide funding at the lowest of the levels set in either of the appropriations bills passed by the House of Representatives or the Senate or the amount provided in FY2006.