Greetings from D.C. While Congress continues honing the FY 2011 budget—always interesting during an election year—the Administration moves forward with developing the FY 2012 budget, due out February 2011. As is typical in late summer, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued guidance to agency heads, highlighting the science and technology priorities for the Administration—and how they should be reflected in the forthcoming 2012 budget.
Specifically, OMB calls out six overarching "challenges" that agency R&D budgets should strive to address. Agency R&D budgets should work to: 1) promote economic growth and job creation, 2) defeat dangerous diseases, 3) effect a clean energy future, 4) mitigate global climate change impacts, 5) manage the competing demands on land and water for the production of food, fiber, and fuels, and 6) develop the technologies to protect our troops, citizens, and national interests.
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Author: Gary Jones
