President’s FY13 Research and Development Budget Released
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has responsibility, in partnership with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), for advising the President on the Federal Research and Development (R&D) budget and shaping R&D priorities across those Federal agencies that have significant portfolios in science and technology. OSTP also has responsibility—with the help of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), which is administered out of OSTP—for coordinating interagency research initiatives. It is OSTP’s mission to help develop and implement sound science and technology policies and budgets that reflect Administration priorities and make coordinated progress toward important national policy goal.
OSTP is pleased to release the following information on the science, technology, innovation, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education components of the President’s FY 2013 Budget. Click here for webcast of budget briefing and PDF of R&D Budget.
The full President’s FY 2013 budget can be found here.
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Senate Hearing on Investing in Federal R and D
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation announces the following Science and Space Subcommittee hearing on investing in federal R&D.
Mar 17, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Russell Senate Office Building Room 253, Washington, DC
Witness Panel 1
- The Honorable John P. Holdren
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Executive Office of the President - The Honorable Patrick D. Gallagher
Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology
U.S. Department of Commerce - The Honorable Subra Suresh
Director, National Science Foundation - Dr. Waleed Abdalati
Chief Scientist, NASA
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NIST Issues Guidance on Cloud Computing Privacy and Security Requirements for Federal Agencies
NIST Issues Guidance on Cloud Computing Privacy and Security Requirements for Federal Agencies
Posted on February 17, 2011 by HL Chronicle of Data Protection, Joel Buckman, an associate in Hogan Lovells Privacy and Information Management practice group located in the Washington, D.C office, assisted in the preparation of this entry.
Recent guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) encourages federal agencies to take advantage of cloud computing. It also provides draft security and privacy guidelines for federal agencies to follow when engaging cloud providers. The draft guidelines serve as roadmaps for how to negotiate meaningful privacy and data security protections from cloud providers. Though prepared for federal agencies, the draft guidelines could prove influential to the private sector as an increasing number of private businesses use cloud services. NIST has requested comments on the drafts by no later than February 28, 2011. …
For full text of the article, visit NIST Issues Guidance on Cloud Computing Privacy and Security Requirements for Federal Agencies : HL Chronicle of Data Protection.
U.S. Federal Agency R and D Budget Briefing Schedule FY 2012
AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program
For information and analysis of the U.S. federal R&D budget, visit: http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/
Appropriations Progress Chart
AAAS Analysis of R&D Investment in Appropriations
Status of Appropriations Legislation for Fiscal Year 2011
Agency Budget Briefing Schedule FY 2012
OSTP
| When: | Monday, February 14, 2011, 1:30pm – 2:30pm |
| Where: | AAAS Auditorium, 1200 New York Avenue NW, Washington DC (entrance at 12th and H) |
| Metro: | Metro Center (red, blue, and orange lines) |
| RSVP: | Press should RSVP to Phil Larson |
| Details: | Live webcast will be available at http://www.aaas.org/go/ostp |
House Republicans Propose New FY 2011 S&T Budgets
FYI#15, API Bulletin of Science Policy News, Richard Jones, February 10, 2011
Next week the House of Representatives may vote on a funding bill that would make significant changes in some S&T agency budgets. Under an initial version of this bill:
* The budget for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science would be reduced by 18.0 percent or $882.3 million from the current level.
* Funding for the National Institute of Standards and Technology would be cut by 14.4 percent or $123.7 million.
* NASA’s budget would remain essentially level, declining 0.6 percent or $103 million.
* The budget for the U.S. Geological Survey would also remain level, declining 0.5 percent or $5.3 million.
* The National Science Foundation’s budget would increase 6.0 percent or $412.9 million.
These changes were in a list of seventy proposed budget recommendations released yesterday by the House Appropriations Committee that were projected to total $74 billion. Additional budget cuts will be made in the bill before it goes to the full House. Chairman Rogers just announced that these cuts will total $100 billion from what President Obama requested. That forthcoming bill – a continuing resolution or CR – would provide funding after an existing short-term bill expires on March 4.
White House Moves Towards Cloud Computing
The Briefing Room: The BlogStreaming at 1:00 In the CloudTuesday, September 15th, 2009Posted by Vivek Kundra, U.S. Chief Technology OfficerToday, I am excited to announce that we have launched Apps.gov to help continue the President’s initiative to lower the cost of government operations while driving innovation within government. I’ll be discussing this in a speech at the NASA Ames Research Center at 1:00 EDT – watch the speech live here [UPDATE: This event has now concluded].Apps.gov is an online storefront for federal agencies to quickly browse and purchase cloud-based IT services, for productivity, collaboration, and efficiency. Cloud computing is the next generation of IT in which data and applications will be housed centrally and accessible anywhere and anytime by a various devices (this is opposed to the current model where applications and most data is housed on individual devices). By consolidating available services, Apps.gov is a one-stop source for cloud services – an innovation that not only can change how IT operates, but also save taxpayer dollars in the process. …For full text of the blog post, visit: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Streaming-at-100-In-the-Cloud/
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