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Title: Defense, Homeland Security Dominate Bush's FY 2005 R & D Budget (From the Hill) (Statistical Data Included)
Author : Issues in Science and Technology
Release Date : January 22, 2004
Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 182 KB

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Less than two weeks after Congress finally completed its work on the fiscal year (FY) 2004 budget, President Bush on February 2 released his FY 2005 budget proposal. The president would increase total federal R & D spending to $132 billion--$5.5 billion or 4.3 percent more than FY 2004--but, in a repeat of the past couple of years, most of the increase would go for R & D spending in the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) (see table). Funding for all other R & D agencies would continue to stagnate or decline, with increases in some agencies offset by steep cuts in others. Even two favored nondefense R & D agencies would have to adjust to diminished expectations. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget, which was recently doubled over a five-year period, would rise only 2.6 percent. The National Science Foundation (NSF) budget would increase 3.6 percent, but that would leave the agency well short of the money promised when a law to double its budget over five years was enacted in 2002.