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Observations on the President's Fiscal Year 1999 Federal Science and Technology Budget
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In this report, the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) provides its observations on the federal science and technology (FS&T) portion of the president’s fiscal year (FY) 1999 submission. The FS&T budget (see box) reflects the federal investment in the creation of new knowledge and technologies and excludes such activities as the testing and evaluating of new weapons systems. Provided below are the highlights of this report
• The president’s FY 1999 budget proposes an increase1 in the FS&T bud- get (a 1.3% increase over the FY 1998 budget in constant dollars). This proposed increase would bring FS&T to within 1.8% of its FY 1994 level in constant dollars. • The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Founda- tion (NSF) have received increased investment since 1994. NIH’s FY 1999 FS&T budget would be 21.3% larger than its FY 1994 budget in real terms. NSF’s would be 14.3% larger. • The FS&T budgets of other agencies that support research and graduate education and have important influences on the development of specific fields (such as physical sciences, engineering, computer science, and mathematics) have declined since FY 1994. Funding for FS&T in these agencies as a group would be down by 11.0% from FY 1994.
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Computer Science
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