Peer review not popular at Homeland Security
DEC 09, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.4.0933
When it comes to funding basic research at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), program officers seem to rely mostly on their own opinion reports Science . An analysis of the agency’s $1 billion science and technology directorate has found that only about 40% of the $175 million spent on basic science was awarded through a competitive process. And only a portion of that slice is subject to outside peer review.
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Paul Guinnessy, pguinnes@aip.org
© 2009 American Institute of Physics
