Materials research promoted in US FY 2017 budget request
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Materials research promoted in US FY 2017 budget request www.whitehouse.gov/omb
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resident Barack Obama’s budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2017, presented on February 9, 2016, pursues increases in materials research over the enacted FY 2016 budget across the entire domestic science and technology portfolio, notably for the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy Office of Science, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In marked contrast, however, the president’s budget request could cut funding for research for the Department of Defense, with significant cuts for basic research. Following is the breakdown as compared to enacted FY 2016 budgets. National Science Foundation (NSF)
Overall, the president’s budget proposes a 6.7% increase, while the Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences (MPS)would receive a 6.5% (or $87.3 million) increase. This includes an increase of 6.3% for materials research and condensed-matter science in the Division of Materials Research (DMR).
Across NSF, the Cyber-Enabled Materials, Manufacturing, and Smart Systems (CEMMSS) initiative increases by 0.3% to a total of $257 million, with a specific focus on the Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) Program. The purpose of DMREF is to design and synthesize materials by integrating theory, computation, experimentation, and data mining. These programs are a direct response to the administration’s Materials Genome Initiative. NSF intends to continue existing programs under the CEMMSS umbrella such as DMREF, Cyber Physical Systems, the NSF National Robotics Initiative, and programs related to advanced manufacturing. Materials Centers funding in the FY 2017 proposed budget for the MPS Division of Materials Research is equivalent to FY 2016 funding at $56.0 million, a level of funding that would support 21 Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers. The DMR FY 2016 request includes other Foundation focus areas including
the Sustainable Chemistry, Engineering, and Materials effort under the NSF-wide Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) Program area, including critical minerals and materials. SEES investments would drop to $52 million for FY 2017, a reduction of 29.8%. Programs impacting materials research are also found in two other divisions of MPS—Chemistry (6.4% increase), Physics (6% increase)—and in NSF’s Engineering Directorate. Department of Energy (DOE)
The president requests $5.7 billion for the DOE Office of Science, a proposed increase of 4.2%. Basic Energy Sciences (BES) is the largest of the program areas within the Office of Science, due mainly to stewardship of national user facilities, and is projected to grow by 4.7% or $87.73 million for a total of just over $1.9 billion. Within non-facilitybased research programs of BES, the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Division includes materials discovery, design, and synthesis; condensed-matter and materials physics; and scattering and instrumentation sciences. In FY 2017, fundi
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