Week 6

February 19, 2008 - Federal Budget Overview and Process

Articles

AAAS. 2007. An introduction to the Federal Budget. Powerpoint presentation by Kei Koizumi, AAAS

AAAS. 2007. Another update on Federal R&D Funding and the 2008 Budget. Powerpoint presentation by Kei Koizumi, AAAS, December 14, 2007

AAAS. 2007. Congress wraps up another disappointing year for Federal R&D Funding. Website: http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/fy08.htm

AAAS. 2007. President’s proposed budget for FY2008. Website: http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/guibdg08.htm

AAAS. 2007. Guide to R&D funding data-historical data.  Website: http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/guihist.htm

U.S. Office of Management and Budget, official site of President’s proposed budget: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/

President’s proposed budget for FY2009, to be released February 4th, 2008 (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/)

Marburger, J. 2007. U.S. Science Advisor tells researchers to look elsewhere. Science 316:817-818

PCAST, 2002. Assessing the U.S. R&D Investment, Office of the President

Pielke, Jr., R.A., 2004. The End of Research? A Perspective for the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes (http://www.cspo.org/), Arizona State University, October. http://www.cspo.org/ourlibrary/perspectives/Pielke_October04.htm

Sarewitz, D. 2003. Does science policy exist, and if so, does it matter?: Some observations on the U.S. R&D budget. Discussion paper for Earth Institute Science, Technology and Global Development Seminar