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President’s FY 2012 Budget Unveiled
President Obama will reveal his budget request for FY 2012 at 10:30am ET
this morning. For live coverage, check your favorite news source. Later
today, there will be budget briefings by Federal funding agencies, notably
the National Science Foundation — including the CISE Directorate — and the
Department of Energy‘s Office of Science. Our colleagues at CRA‘s Policy
Blog will have complete coverage of the President’s anticipated $3.7
trillion request — and specifically what it says about Federal funding for
R&D.
Updated 1pm ET: The President’s FY 2012 budget request for NSF/CISE calls
for an increase of $109.59 million (+17.7%) over FY 2010 actual expenditures
(there’s no FY 2011 budget for comparison purposes yet), or a total of $
728.42 million. Requested increases for CISE’s three divisions, CCF, CNS,
and IIS, are 23.4%, 15.1%, and 20.8%, respectively. Among the major
research investments contained in the request:
- $46.36 million to CISE (up from $17 million in FY 2010) for a $998.19
million NSF-wide Science, Engineering, and Education of Sustainability (SEES
) initiative: “CISE will support the NSF-wide SEES investment and enrich
the SEES portfolio with a program aimed at the challenges created as well as
addressed by information and communications technologies. This effort
will support research activities developing algorithmic foundations and new
software and hardware for energy-efficient, energy-aware, and sustainable
computing and communications.”
- $17.50 million to CISE (new investment) for a $30 million National
Robotics Initiative spanning NSF, NIH, NASA, and USDA: “CISE will focus on
fundamental research in robotics science and engineering. This includes
advanced sensing, control, and power sources; dynamical system mechanics;
optimization, design, and decision algorithms; problem-solving architectures
; hybrid architectures that integrate or combine methods (deductive, case-
based, symbolic, etc.); safe and soft structures and mechanisms with
reactive surfaces and elastic actuators; computational models of human
cognition; integration of artificial intelligence, computer vision, and
assistive robotics.”
- $17 million to CISE (up from $15 million in FY 2010) for the Smart Health
and Wellbeing program: “CISE will pursue improvements in safe, effective,
efficient, equitable, and patient-centered health and wellness technology
and services through innovations in computer and information science and
engineering that recognize the technical feasibility of diagnosis, treatment
, and care based on an individual’s genetic makeup and lifestyle and
acknowledge the changing demographics of an increasingly aging population.” | t**********t
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