Computer Science

Allocating Federal Funds for Science and Technology

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Currently, the federal research and development budget is typically defined as the sum of the research and development funds obligated or proposed by federal departments and agencies for programs and facilities classified as R&D. The re- search and development budget is never considered as an integrated whole during the development of the President’s budget or given an overall review by Congress. Rather, the research and development budget is developed in the context of individual agency missions and programs. Recent administrations have attempted to introduce more coherence in federal policy for R&D by creating an intergovernmental committee structure to coordinate budgeting for high-priority programs that involve more than one agency, for example, research on global change and on high-performance computing and com- munications. 3 The President may even single out certain programs or facilities as presidential initiatives. However, it has been difficult to shape those initiatives into integrated efforts that are more than an aggregation of agency programs that already exist. When the budget reaches Congress, it is disaggregated into the various appropriations bills and considered by many authorizing committees and appropriations subcommittees; efforts to achieve integrated initiatives can be quickly undone.

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: ., 1995

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1-108

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English

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0-309-51973-X

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Allocating Federal Funds for Science and Technolog

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