The National Institute of Standards and Technology, which plays a key role in federal IT research and development and standards setting, continues to be a winner under the Obama administration's budgets. The administration's $1.0 billion fiscal 2012 budget request represents an 8.9% increase over last year's request and a 16.9% increase over 2010 appropriations.
"The NIST mission is well-aligned with the President's goal of driving economic growth through innovation, and it's in that context that we've seen increases in the programs," NIST director Patrick Gallagher said in an interview with InformationWeek, calling the proposed budget increases "sizable."
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Author: J. Nicholas Hoover
