Arden Bement Leaving NSF

Posted on February 4, 2010October 17, 2012

Courtest of the National Science Foundation

February 4, 2010

ARLINGTON, VA – Arden L. Bement, the director of the National Science Foundation, has been named to lead Purdue University’s new Global Policy Research Institute (GPRI) in West Lafayette, Ind. Bement will begin his new post as the director of GPRI–which will draw on seven different science and research disciplines at Purdue–on June 1 this year.

Bement was appointed to his six-year term as director by President George W. Bush in November 2004. He served as acting director for 10 months prior to this. Under Bement, NSF has seen its budget move onto a doubling path, created a series of new science and engineering initiatives around innovation themes, increased its role in the international scientific policy arena and increased its commitment to core basic research areas. NSF is widely recognized as a key driver of science and innovation advances in the U.S. Continue reading “Arden Bement Leaving NSF”

FY11 NOAA Below the Surface

Posted on February 2, 2010October 17, 2012

Courtesy of the NOAA Research Staff

To Friends and Partners of NOAA Research:

The President has released the fiscal year (FY) 2011 budget request for federal agencies. For FY 2011, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) requests a total appropriation of $5,554,458,000, an increase of $806,105,000 over the FY 2010 enacted level.

NOAA requests a total of $464,860,000 for the Office of Oceanic & Atmospheric Research, an increase of $15,715,000 over the FY 2010 enacted budget. OAR’s FY 2011 request seeks funding to: (1) sustain critical research activities in support of NOAA climate, weather, and ocean missions; (2) initiate new activities that address currently unmet gaps in the NOAA service missions; and (3) meet the information needs of our Nation’s environmental decision-makers. Continue reading “FY11 NOAA Below the Surface”

FY11 Budget Request Materials Available for Additional Agencies

Posted on February 2, 2010October 17, 2012

As noted in previous posts, the President’s Budget Request (PBR) for FY11 was released yesterday. Previous posts have captured budget information for federal agencies of particular importance to the University of Washington. This post captures budget request information for several agencies (Agriculture, NOAA, NASA, NIST, Defense, USGS, NEA, NEH, EPA, VA). Links to detailed agency budget request information are contained within the chart. The Office of Federal Relations will provide additional information and analysis as it becomes available. However, members of the UW community should feel free to contact our office with questions.

AGENCY/PROGRAM	FY10 FINAL	FY11 PBR	% CHANGE
Agriculture
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative	262.5	428.8	63.35
Hatch Act Funds	215.0	215.0	0.00
Smith Lever Funds 3(b) and 3(c)	297.5	297.5	0.00
Evans-Allen Program	48.5	48.5	0.00
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)	68.1	68.1	0.00
McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry	29.0	29.0	0.00

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)	4737.0	5550.0	17.16
NOAA, Sea Grant	63.0	62.5	-0.79
NOAA, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research	438.8	465.0	5.97

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
NASA, Science Mission Directorate	4469.0	5006.0	12.02
NASA, Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate	501.0	1152.0	129.94

National Institute on Standards and Technology (NIST)
NIST, Technology Innovation Program (TIP)	69.9	79.9	14.31
NIST, Manufacturing Extension Program (MEP)	124.7	129.7	4.01

Department of Defense Basic Research (6.1)	1882.0	2000.0	6.27

United States Geological Survey (USGS)	1112.0	1133.0	1.89

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)	167.5	161.3	-3.70

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)	167.5	161.3	-3.70

EPA, Office of Science and Technology	846.0	847.0	0.12

Veternans Affairs (VA)
VA, Medical and Prosthetics Research Program	581.0	590.0	1.55
VA, Research Facilities

Department of Energy Announces Details on Hubs

Posted on December 22, 2009October 17, 2012

Department of Energy to Invest $366M in Energy Innovation Hubs

Funding Opportunity Announcement for Fuels from Sunlight Hub is Issued

Washington, DC – U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today outlined the Department’s plans to invest up to $366 million to establish and operate three new Energy Innovation Hubs focused on accelerating research and development in three key energy areas. Each Hub, to be funded at up to $122 million over five years, will bring together a multidisciplinary team of researchers in an effort to speed research and shorten the path from scientific discovery to technological development and commercial deployment of highly promising energy-related technologies.

“Given the urgency of our challenges in both energy and climate, we need to do everything we can to mobilize our Nation’s scientific and technological talent to accelerate the pace of innovation,” said Secretary Chu. “The DOE Energy Innovation Hubs represent a new, more proactive approach to managing and conducting research. We are taking a page from America’s great industrial laboratories in their heyday. Their achievements—from the transistor to the information theory that makes modern telecommunications possible—are evidence that we can build creative, highly-integrated research teams that can accomplish more, faster, than researchers working separately.”

The Hubs are part of a broad-based clean energy research strategy by the Obama Administration that will harness America’s innovation machine to achieve the breakthroughs we need.

This strategy includes three new initiatives which are designed to complement each other: Continue reading “Department of Energy Announces Details on Hubs”

FY10 Appropriations Process Comes to an End

Posted on December 22, 2009October 17, 2012

**Chart Updated 12/22**

With passage of the Defense Appropriations bill in the Senate over the past weekend, the FY10 appropriations process came to an end. The 2010 process included nearly $11 million of appropriations specifically for the University of Washington, including: $4.6 million for the Institute for Simulation and Interprofessional Studies, $4 million for the Puget Sound Ecosystem Research Initiative, $1 million for the Washington Biofuels Industry Development Project, $880,000 for the NW National Marine Renewable Energy Center, and $200,000 for the UW Bothell Nursing Faculty Consortium Training Program. Coverage of important federal agnecy/program figures can be founds here. In many cases, federal agencies that received significant funding through the Recovery Act (e.g. NIH, NSF, DoE Office of Science) saw only modest increases in the regular appropriations process.

Bill	House Committee	Full House	Senate Committee	Full Senate	House Conference	Senate Conference	President
Agriculture	6/18	7/9	7/7	8/4	10/7	10/8	10/21
Commerce, Justice, Science	6/9	6/18	6/25	11/5	12/10	12/13	12/16
Defense	7/22	7/30	9/10	10/6	12/16	12/19	12/19
Energy and Water	7/7	7/17	7/9	7/29	10/1	10/15	10/28
Financial Services	7/7	7/16	7/9	12/13	12/10	12/13	12/16
Homeland Security	6/12	6/24	6/18	7/9	10/15	10/20	10/28
Interior, Environ.	6/18	6/26	6/25	9/24	10/29	10/29	10/31
Labor-HHS-Education	7/17	7/24	7/30	12/13	12/10	12/13	12/16
Leg. Branch	6/12	6/19	6/18	7/6	9/25	9/29	10/1
Military Con.-VA	6/23	7/10	7/7	11/17	12/10	12/13	12/16
State-For. Ops.	6/23	7/9	7/9	12/13	12/10	12/13	12/16
Transpo.-HUD	7/17	7/23	7/30	9/17	12/10	12/13	12/16