# Presentation: 611032

## Introduction

**Introduction**
** ****and **
**NSF Overview**

## Vannevar Bush
And
Science:
The Endless Frontier

**Vannevar Bush**
**And**
**Science:**
**The Endless Frontier**

**Notes:**
“The Government should accept new responsibilities for promoting the flow of scientific knowledge and the development of scientific talent in our youth.” Science, The Endless Frontier, 1945

1947: Congress approves, Truman Vetoes

1950 Compromise bill signed by Truman.

## The Endless Frontier Recommendations

**The Endless Frontier Recommendations**

**Universities should be the nation’s primary basic research               infrastructure**
**Federal funds should do double duty:**
**Procure research results**
**Educate the next generation **
**Award research grants based on merit**
**Establish a national science foundation**

## NSF Act of 1950

**NSF Act of 1950**

**Encourage & develop a national policy for the promotion of basic research and education in the math, physical, medical,biological, engineering and other sciences**

## NSF Act: Authorizations

_**1950 Act:**_
**Initiate and support:**
**basic research**
**programs to strengthen research potential**
**science education programs at all levels**
**Award scholarships and fellowships**
**Foster international S&T**
**Avoid “undue concentration”**
**Provide a central clearinghouse for data on science and engineering and information for policy formulation**

**NSF Act: Authorizations**

**Act of 1950**
**Initiate and support:**
**Basic research**
**Programs to strengthen research potential**
**Science education programs at all levels**
**Award scholarships and fellowships**
**Foster international S&T**
**Avoid “undue concentration”**
**Provide a central clearinghouse for data on science and engineering and information for policy formulation**

**Subsequent Authorizations**
**Foster and support the development and use of computer and other technologies**
**Evaluate the status and needs of the various sciences and fields of engineering**
**Promote equal opportunities in science and engineering**

## NSF Vision

**NSF Vision**

***Advancing discovery, innovation, and education beyond the frontiers of current knowledge, and empowering future generations in science and engineering.***

- NSF-3

## NSF in a Nutshell

**NSF in a Nutshell**

**Independent Agency**
**Primarily Uses Grant Mechanism**
**Low Administrative Costs**
**Discipline-based structure**

## The National Science Board

## Office of International Science and Engineering

**Office of International Science and Engineering**

**Provides innovative awards**
**and supplements that promote research**
**excellence through new international**
**collaboration and that develop the next**
**generation of globally engaged scientists**

**www.nsf.gov/oise**

## Office of Polar Programs 

**Office of Polar Programs **

**Manages and initiates National Science Foundation funding for basic research and its operational support in the Arctic and the Antarctic. **

## Rotators (IPAs):Our Leavening Ingredient

**Rotators (IPAs):****Our Leavening Ingredient**

**Intergovernmental Personnel Act**
**Visiting Scientists**

**Notes:**
Intergovernmental Personnel Act

## NSF Organizational Chart

**Mathematical**
**& Physical**
**Sciences**
**(MPS)**

**Geosciences**
**(GEO)**

**Engineering**
**(ENG)**

**Computer &**
**Information **
**Science &**
**Engineering**
**(CISE)**

**Biological**
**Sciences**
**(BIO)**

**Office of the**
**Inspector General**
**(OIG)**

**Director**
**Deputy Director**

**National Science Board**
**(NSB)**

**Office of Cyberinfrastructure**

**Office of Equal Employment **
**Opportunity Programs**

**Office of the General Counsel**

**Office of Integrative Activities**

**Office of International **
**Science & Engineering**

**Office of Legislative &**
**Public Affairs**

**Office of Polar Programs**

**Social, **
**Behavioral**
**& Economic**
**Sciences**
**(SBE)**

**Education **
**& Human**
**Resources**
**(EHR)**

**Budget, Finance **
**& Award**
** ****Management**
**(BFA)**

**Information**
**& Resource **
**Management**
**(IRM)**

**NSF Organizational Chart**

## The Political Climate

**The Political Climate**

## America COMPETES Act

**America COMPETES Act**

**Authorizes budget levels at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Department of Energy's Office of Science, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) on a path to doubling within the near term. The total NSF budget is authorized to double its budget in approximately seven years.**

## Slide 15

| $6.854 billion |
| --- |
| Increase over FY 2008 Request:
$822.,1 million, 13.6% |

## APPROPRIATIONS FOR NSF FY 1998 – 2009 Request

**9.4%**
**Annually**

**APPROPRIATIONS FOR NSF**** FY 1998 – 2009 Request**

**Billions  of  Dollars**

**0.19%**
**Annually**

## NSF FY 2009 Budget Request

**NSF FY 2009 Budget** **Request**

| NSF Funding by Account
(Dollars in Millions) |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | 2009
Request | 2009
 CR |
| Research and Related Activities | $5,593.99 | $4,821.47 |
| Education and Human Resources | 790.41 | 725.6 |
| MREFC | 147.51 | 220.74 |
| Agency Operations and Award Management | 305.06 | 281.47 |
| National Science Board | 4.03 | 3.97 |
| Office of Inspector General | 13.10 | 11.43 |
| Total NSF | $6,854.1 | 6065 |

## Slide 18

| Cross-Foundation
Investments |
| --- |
| Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation
$100 million
Science and Engineering Beyond Moore’s Law
$20 million
Adaptive Systems Technology
$15 million
Dynamics of Water Processes in the Environment
$10 million |
|  |

## Science and Engineering Beyond Moore’s Law

**Goal: To position the United States at the forefront of communications and computation capability beyond the physical and conceptual limitations of current systems.**
**$20 million to encourage transformational activities and create partnership opportunities with the private sector and national laboratories**

## Adaptive Systems Technology

**Goal: To generate creative pathways and natural interfaces between human and physical systems that will revolutionize the development of novel anticipatory and adaptive systems**
**$15 million to support small, high-risk, transformative research projects to explore promising research directions in this emerging field.**

## Dynamics of Water Processes In The Environment

**Goal: To increase our fundamental understanding of the Earth’s freshwater systems and provide the scientific basis for decision making about water resources.**
**$10 million to promote fundamental research on the complex processes and feedbacks that affect the vulnerability and resilience of freshwater systems to climate and environmental change.**

## Proposal, Award and Funding Trends

**Proposal, Award and Funding Trends**

## NSF PROPOSAL STATISTICS(FY 2008)

**44,199 proposal actions**
** ****~248,000 reviews **
** ****~45,000 reviewers**
** ****11,156 awards **
** ****25.0% funding rate****	****(Research 21%)**

**NSF PROPOSAL STATISTICS****(FY 2008)**

## NSF RESEARCHGRANT PROFILE

**Competitive awards (Research):****	****	****     7,022**
**  ****Average annual award:****	****	****	****$143,212**
**    ****Median annual award:****	****	****	****  $110,000**
**    ****Average duration (research):****	****	****3.00 years**

**NSF RESEARCH****GRANT PROFILE**
** ****(FY 2008) **

## Type of Review

| Year | Mail & Panel | Mail Only | Panel Only |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1993 | 23% | 30% | 41% |
| 2007 | 32% | 8% | 56% |

**Type of Review**

## COMPARISON OF NSF BUDGET, STAFF, ANDCOMPETITIVE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION

**Percentage Change**

**1983     1985     1987     1989     1991     1993     1995     1997     1999     2001     2003 **

**COMPARISON OF ****NSF BUDGET, STAFF, AND****COMPETITIVE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION**

## National Science Foundation Update

***And How To Find It**

**National Science Foundation Update**

## Slide 28

## Slide 29

## Slide 30

## Key Documents

- FY 2008 NSF Budget Request
- http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/
- Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide
- http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=papp
- Science and Engineering Indicators
- http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind08/
- When in doubt –
- http://www.nsf.gov/