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White House wants to root out copycat programs - starting with STEM
The Obama administration's proposed fiscal 2014 budget called for consolidating or eliminating 116 of the government's 226 STEM initiatives and centralizing the coordination of STEM programs under just three agencies: the Education Department, the National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution. The administration's STEM proposal is one of the government's first visible steps in reversing some of the duplication that riddles the federal landscape and which some lawmakers have seized on as examples of government waste.
Tags: Senate , Senate Budget Committee , Task Force on Government Performance , Mark Warner , Kelly Ayotte , OSTP , STEM , duplicative programs , Jack Moore
White House, agencies commit $200M to solving 'big data' quandary
Federal technology leaders unveiled an initiative to develop better ways of harnessing the rapidly growing volume of increasingly complicated data sets, known as big data. The push is led by a joint solicitation — from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health — to develop the core technologies for reigning in big data. All told, six federal departments and agencies will take part in the program — committing more than $200 million in research-and-development investments.
Tags: NIH , DoD , DARPA , Energy , USGS , NSF , OSTP , Subra Suresh , Francis Collins , Marcia McNutt
Federal R&D efforts could get boost
NSF, NIST and Energy continue to receive increases on way to doubling budget by 2017. Overall, R&D across government increases only slightly. OSTP will create a dashboard to measure effectiveness of federal R&D efforts.
Tags: technology , Aneesh Chopra , White House , OSTP , NASA , NSF , Energy , NIST , USDA , Education , Smithsonian , research and development , R&D dashboard , budget , FY 2011 budget
Wolf: Answers needed in OSTP China meeting
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) wants answers from Attorney General Eric Holder.
Tags: Frank Wolf , GAO , OSTP , China , In Depth
White House launches 4-pillar smart grid plan
The Obama administration released its policy framework for modernizing the nation's electric grid Monday. As has been the case in national strategies on other topics the White House has released recently, the administration wants the federal government to emphasize its role as a facilitator and standards author rather than a regulator.
Tags: White House , technology , cybersecurity , industry , Smart Grid , OSTP , Nancy Sutley , Department of Energy , Stephen Chu , Jared Serbu
Congress gives NIST a clear set of priorities
The America Competes Reauthorization Act authorizes the agency's programs and sets a path toward the future. President Obama signed the bill into law Tuesday. Several other science and technology agencies receive marching orders from lawmakers.
Tags: technology , management , Patrick Gallagher , NIST , OSTP , Energy , NSF , America Competes Act , challenges , cybersecurity , cloud computing , Jason Miller
White House wants 2011 budgets to reflect science and tech priorities
The White House wants agencies to shift priorities as they develop their fiscal 2011 budget submissions to focus more on the administration's science and technology priorities.
Tags: technology , mngt , Peter Orszag , White House , Office of Science and Technology Policy , OMB , budget
