S federal science and technology budgets squeaked by mostly in the black as Congress wrapped up the ï¬scal year 2012 appropriations process in December. But with mandatory spending cuts due to take hold in January 2013, the outlook for next year is for level or declining R&D spending, no matter what President Obama may propose when he sends his FY 2013 request to Capitol Hill on 6 February. For the current year, NSF fared best among the science and technology agencies; its 3.3% increase of $173 million above its FY 2011 level propelled its budget above the $7 billion mark for the ï¬rst time. At the other end of the scale, NASA took an overall 3.7%, $648 million hit, leaving it with $17.8 billion. Most of the reduction was due to the ending of the space shuttle program; NASAâs science programs rose nearly 3%, to $5.1 billion. The Department of Energyâs Oï¬ce of Science, which supports basic research and the nonweapons national labs, got $4.9 billion, an increase of $28 million from last year. But that was well below the Obama administrationâs original request of $5.4 billion. Spending for energy eï¬ciency and renewable energy will increase by 1.6%
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Official scientific integrity
Feder, Toni
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, Volume 65 (2)
American Institute of Physics – Feb 1, 2012
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