FYI summary of FY 2011 budget request
DOI: 10.1063/PT.4.0953
Richard Jones of AIP’s FYI summarizes the Obama Administration FY 2011 budget request .
Jones notes that Obama asks for significant increases in science and technology funding.
Funding for the DOE Office of Science would increase 4.4 percent .
National Science Foundation funding would increase 8.0 percent , while that for NASA would see a 1.5 percent increase .
The Department of Education’s Mathematics and Science Partnerships program would be renamed, and would receive a 66.2 percent increase .
The budget for the National Institute of Standards and Technology would increase 7.3 percent .
Funding for the science and technology programs of the Department of Defense would decline 12.5 percent .
US Geological Survey funding would increase 2.0 percent .
The budget for the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering would increase 3.0 percent .
The National Nuclear Security Administration would see an increase of 13.4 percent in its funding.
Paul Guinnessy
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