AAAS analyzes federal R&D 2...( National Science Foundation (NSF) and ...)

National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) may have to adjust to some belt-tightening as well. After a five-year doubling campaign involving 15 percent increases for each of the past five years, the NIH budget growth would slow to a mere 2.7 percent in FY 2004. And even though President Bush signed a bill in December that called for the NSF budget to double over five years, their funding allotment for 2004 is only a 3.2 percent increase (to $5.5 billion).

In the wake of the Columbia shuttle disaster, NASA's budget would rise to $15.5 billion, however, Koizumi adds that the budget will have to be reallocated or augmented in the coming weeks because non-R&D programs, of which the largest is the Space Shuttle, would have higher priority.

As the FY 2004 budget now moves to Congress, the president faces Republican control in both chambers, making it much more likely than in past years that his FY 2004 proposal will be enacted in close to its proposed form. However, with the crisis in the Middle East, and a slow track-record for passing the 2003 budget, it may be months before we see the FY 2004 budget resolved.

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Contact: Monica Amarelo
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
2-Apr-2003

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