FYI

The American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Science Policy

News

Number 4: January 9, 2001

Increases, Decreases: A Comparison of Budgetary Outcomes for FY
2001

The current prediction is that President-elect George Bush will
send his FY 2002 budget request to Congress in March. The
Clinton Administration will be releasing a budget this month.
Before looking ahead, a final look back at the changes in
program budgets covered in FYI, starting with the budgets that
increased by the greatest percentage over the previous year.
These aggregate figures do not include the across-the-board
0.22% cut that was made by Congress in late December, other
general reduction adjustments, changes in program content, or
the ramping down or ramping up of major facilities or
instruments.

  • Dept. of Education Eisenhower Professional Development Program +44.8%
  • DOE Basic Energy Sciences (including Spallation Neutron Source) +30.0%
  • NASA Life and Microgravity Sciences +15.4%
  • NASA Space Science +14.4%
  • DOD Basic Research (6.1) +14.3%
  • NSF Education and Human Resources +13.9%
  • National Science Foundation +13.6%
  • NSF Research and Related Activities +13.2%
  • NIST Scientific and Technical Research and Services +10.2%
  • DOD Applied Research (6.2) +9.0%
  • NSF Polar Programs +8.9%
  • Total DOD 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 programs +7.9%
  • NASA +5.0%
  • DOD Advanced Technology Development (6.3) +5.0%
  • DOE Nuclear Physics +4.0%
  • NASA Earth Science +3.8%
  • DOE High Energy Physics +3.2%
  • DOE Fusion Energy Sciences +2.9%
  • NIST Advanced Technology Program +2.0%
  • NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership +00.1%
  • NASA Human Space Flight -00.1%
  • NIST -06.3%

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Richard M .Jones

Public Information Division

The American Institute of Physics

fyi@aip.org

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