Abstract
How well does the nation's science and technology enterprise fare in President Bill Clinton's fiscal 1998 budget proposal? answer given by two major scientific organizations in separate assessments last week: It looks good on the surface, but don't probe too deeply. National Academy of Sciences weighed in with The Federal Science & Technology Budget Request, FY 1998, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science issued A Preview of AAAS Report XXII: Research and Development FY 1998. reports analyze the budget request (C&EN, Feb. 17, page 26) from different perspectives, so the numbers contained in them aren't strictly comparable, but their conclusions are remarkably similar. To provide a more precise measure of the federal investment in new knowledge and new technologies, NAS excludes from its analysis funding traditionally counted in the federal R&D budget for activities such as production engineering, testing, and evaluation, and upgrading of large weapons and related sys...
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