Obama R&D Spending to Outstrip Space RaceApril 27, 2009
by Bradley Schmidt
President Obama announced today a massive initiative designed to provide increased and sustained funding for research and development in the U.S. scientific community.
Included in his speech to the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. were five points encompassing a healthcare overhaul, White House science policy, science education, energy research and budget allocations.
Chief among fiscal matters addressed by President Obama was his announcement that R&D spending will increase to over 3 percent of the GDP, ranking the United States at or near the top of all nations in terms of expenditures. This includes doubling the budgets of the National Science Foundation (the number of graduate research fellowships will be tripled), NIST and the DOE’s Office of Science for a figure that will top $420 billion altogether.
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Finally, in the most politically-charged message of his address, President Obama announced the creation of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), an effort towards improving evidenced-based decision-making and transparency, and a sharp rebuke of the perceived politicization of scientific data and research by the administration of President Bush.
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Transcript:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-the-National-Academy-of-Sciences-Annual-Meeting/Fact Sheet:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Fact-Sheet-A-Historic-Commitment-To-Research-And-Education/Is there a video of this?
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