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House bill would reauthorize NSF cybersecurity grants at $140M annually
The bill ( H.R. 2096 ), passed 395-10 as part of a House "cyber week" dominated by discussion of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which the chamber approved April 26.
Coast Guard faces icebreaker funding challenges
Multi-agency funding for a new Coast Guard heavy icebreaker could be problematic despite past precedent, according to information in a Congressional Research Service report.
Debate on access to federally-funded research 'unnecessarily contentious'
Library and publishing communities depend on each other, but there is very little real conversation in the “unnecessarily contentious” debate on access to peer reviewed research, said...
White House highlights big data innovation
Big data is an administration priority, said John Holdren, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, during the March 29 unveiling of the White House’s “Big Data Research...
White House highlights big data innovation
Big data is an administration priority, said John Holdren, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, during the March 29 unveiling of the White House’s “Big Data Research...
NSF says high-performance computing shouldn't fixate on FLOPS
Declaring that high-performance computing can't be measured just in floating point operations per second, or FLOPS, the National Science Foundation says in an advance computing infrastructure
NCSES should recalibrate modernization efforts
The National Science Foundation's national center for science and engineering statistics is updating its dissemination programs to improve data user engagement. But according to a new report, the
White House budget emphasizes R&D; NIST set for big boost
President Obama's budget request for the coming fiscal year would collectively direct $140.8 billion toward federal research and development spending, an amount the White House says would...
SBIR, STTR would gain extension under defense authorization bill
Two federal extramural research and development small business set-aside programs would gain a 6-year extension and undergo an expansion in the percentage of federal research dollars dedicated toward
ARRA funds create problems, set precedents for science programs
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 essentially doubled science appropriations for fiscal 2011, but departments have had mixed results in managing the approximately $40 billion
