FY2003 Budget Request Shows 8% Increase in Scientific R&D
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WASHINGTON NEWS FY2003 Budget Request Shows 8% Increase in Scientific R&D President Bush’s budget request for FY2003, released on February 4, places primary emphasis on the war on terrorism, homeland security, and stimulating the economy. The portion for research and development (R&D) totals $111.8 billion, representing an overall 8% increase over FY2002. A large portion of the budget request goes to development programs in the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with an overall 16% increase, and the Department of Defense (DoD), with an overall 11% increase. Inflationary increases or minor losses are apparent in a number of the accounts that grant funding for materials research (see Table I). Initiatives that continue to be important in the president’s budget include Nanotechnology, which shows an increase of 17% to $679 million in its third year, Networking and Information Technology (IT), and Global Climate Change (see Table II). The president’s science advisor, John H. Marburger III, who is also director of the administration’s Office of Science and
Technology Policy, said that this budget request completes an initiative to double NIH R&D funding by 2003. He said that scientists have referred to the 21st century as “the century of bioscience.” Of the money budgeted for NIH, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), established two years ago, is to receive $121.4 million, which is an increase of 8.4% from the authorized amount received in FY2002. NIBIB plans to continue research already started on biomedical imaging and bioengineering, including enhanced drug delivery systems. For FY2003, the institute wants to launch new initiatives, including real-time and multimeasurement sensors and nanoparticle materials for drug production, discovery, and delivery. A request of $842.2 million goes to the Office of Biological and Physical Research, created at the beginning of FY2001 within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Of this, $134.1 million is targeted for physical sciences research, formerly microgravity research, to continue multi- and cross-disciplinary basic research. The office plans to continue
Table I: Research in the FY2003 Budget.* (budget authority in millions of dollars) Research (basic + applied) Defense National Institutes of Health (NIH) Energy National Science Foundation (NSF) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
FY2003 Budget
FY02–03 Percent
4,952 26,846 5,383 3,441 317
-0.2% 14.6% 1.7% 4.7% -5.1%
*Excerpted from the American Association for the Advancement of Science preliminary analysis of R&D in the FY2003 budget.
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fabrication of the International Space Station (ISS) racks and experiment inserts for the Fluids, Combustion, and Materials Science Facilities to be launched in the 2004–2005 time frame. It will also continue its collaborative research effort in Biomolecular Physics and Chemistry program with a specific focus on the joint NASA-National Cancer Institute thrust in the development of nanot
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