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发帖数: 3962 | 1 President Donald Trump today signed into law a $1.3 trillion spending
package that largely rejects deep cuts to research agencies proposed by the
White House and, in many cases, provides substantial increases.
In an analysis, Hourihan and his colleague David Parkes note that the
research spending increase is the largest in more than a decade. They
estimate R&D spending in 2018 will reach “$176.8 billion, an increase of 12
.8% or $20.1 billion above FY 2017 estimated R&D. … [T]otal federal R&D
spending would reach its highest point ever in inflation-adjusted dollars.
… Basic and applied research funding would receive its largest year-over-
year increase since” the 2009 economic stimulus package.
Here’s a look at some of the top line numbers for key science agencies:
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, receives a $3
billion, 8.3% increase to $37 billion. That is well above the increase
proposed by either the House of Representatives or the Senate in their
versions of the spending bills, and a blunt rejection of the 22% cut
proposed by the White House. Included is an additional $414 million for
Alzheimer’s disease research, for a total of $1.8 billion, and a $27
million boost, to $543 million, for clinical and translational science
funding. The NIH increase is “beyond words, folks,” tweeted Benjamin Corb,
director of public affairs at the American Society for Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology in Rockville, Maryland.
The National Science Foundation in Alexandria, Virginia, would get $7.8
billion, a 3.9% or $295 million increase. The agency’s research account
would grow by about 5%, to $6.3 billion. The bill notes "this strong
investment in basic research reflects the Congress' growing concern that
China and other competitors are outpacing the United States in terms of
research spending." It also endorses the Senate’s call to build three new
oceanographic research vessels.
The Department of Energy’s Office of Science in Washington, D.C., would
receive $6.26 billion, an $868 million increase. That is roughly a 15%
increase, rather than the 15% cut the White House proposed. Lawmakers also
rejected Trump’s proposal to eliminate the Advanced Research Projects
Agency-Energy, and instead gave it a $47 million boost, to $353 million.
A $457 million, 7.9% increase for NASA science programs, to $6.2 billion.
The bill increases the agency’s planetary science program by some 21%, or $
382 million, to $2.2 billion. NASA’s earth science programs remain flat at
2017 levels, but the bill rejects the proposed elimination of several earth
science missions and maintains funding for the troubled Wide Field Infrared
Survey Telescope. Overall, NASA gets $20.7 billion, $1.1 billion above 2017.
Spending at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Silver
Spring, Maryland, would grow by $234 million, to $5.9 billion overall.
Funding for climate research would remain flat, but the final bill rejects
cuts proposed by Trump and the House.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg,
Maryland, would get $1.2 billion, $247 million above 2017 levels.
The U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia, gets $1.1 billion, $63
million above 2017 levels. The bill preserves the agency’s eight climate
science centers; the White House had proposed cutting that number in half.
Research programs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C.,
would grow by $33 million, to $1.2 billion.
The budget of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C.
, remains flat at $8.1 billion, as lawmakers rejected deep proposed cuts. | b*****d
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发帖数: 95 | 3 是啊，这个难道不是旧闻吗？
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