- The NSF received a 6.8% increase over the FY07 request.
- Research and Related Activities: 7.7%.
- Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): 9.0%.
- Computing and Communication Foundation (CCF): A whopping 21.4%.
Also NSF would have a new agency wide program on Cyber-Enabled Discover and Innovation (CDI) to "Broaden the Nation's capability for innovation by developing a new generation of computationally based discovery concepts and tools to deal with complex, data-rich, and interacting systems."
The big caveat: The budget has to survive the congressional appropriation process.
any idea why NIH budget has been flat for several years in row?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said... any idea why NIH budget has been flat for several years in row?
ReplyDeleteI for one would be interested to hear opinions on this.
The NIH budget doubled in the 5 years from $13.6B in 1998 to $27.2B in 2003. It now stands at $28.6B, having been basically flat for the last 3 years. In constant dollars, even with the recent decline, current NIH funding is 200% of its 1995 amount.
ReplyDeleteBy contrast, even with the proposed increases, NSF, whose budget is less than 1/4 that of NIH, is funded at just under 150% of its 1995 levels.
The 6.8% boost for NSF costs less than a 1.5% boost would for NIH, which everyone would think of as basically flat and therefore would have little political value. Moreover, the NSF budget is growing in part to accommodate items of value that have been squeezed out of DARPA funding.