# Presentation: 679260

##  National Science Foundation FY1998 Budget Request “Unexpected Turns, Unprecedented Opportunities”

**Joseph Bordogna**
**Acting Deputy Director**
**National Science Foundation**
**Industrial Research Institute**
**May 18, 1997**

## National Science FoundationFY 1998 Budget Request

**Total Request:  $3.367 Billion**** **
**$97 Million Above FY 1997**** **
**Increase of 3.0%**

## NSF Budget Request

**NSF Budget Request**

*Dollars in Millions*

**FY 1997**

**FY 1998**

**Plan**

**Request**

**Change**

- Research & Related Act.

- $2,432

- $2,515

- 3.4%

- Education & Human Res.

- Major Research Equipment

- $619

- $626

- 1.1%

-  $80

- $85

-     6.3%

- $139

- $142

-  2.0%

- Admin. Requirements

## Structuring the Investment Portfolio NSF Budget By Key Program Function

**Structuring the Investment Portfolio**** ****NSF Budget By Key Program Function**

*Dollars in Millions*

**FY 1997**

**FY 1998**

**Plan**

**Request**

**Change**

- Research Proj. Support

- $1,823

- $1,872

- 2.7%

- Research Facilities

- Education & Training

- $662

- $684

- 3.5%

-  $646

- $669

-     3.5%

- $139

- $142

-  2.0%

- Administration & Mgmnt.

## NSF Balanced PortfolioFY 1998

**NSF Balanced Portfolio****FY 1998**

## NSF Investment Outcomes

**Discoveries at and across the frontier of S&E**
**Vital connections to use in society**
**Diverse, productive, globally-oriented S&E workforce**
**Proficiency in math and science skills for all.**

## Integrative Investment in Research & Education

**NSF as investment agent**
**Supporting research and education in universities, colleges and schools**
**Moving new knowledge and skills **
**Training ground for next generation of scientists and engineers**
**Facilitating S&E Partnerships**
**Learning Through Discovery from K-PhD**
**Broad portfolio of integrated investments**
**Excellence through competitive merit review**
**Opportunities across spectrum of S&E**

## NSF FY 1998 Request:  Highlights & Priorities

**Knowledge & Distributed Intelligence in the Age of Information**
**Life and Earth’s Environment**
**Educating for the Future**

## Knowledge & Distributed Intelligence in the Age of Information

**Knowledge & Distributed Intelligence in the Age of Information**

**KDI Components:**
**Next Generation Internet**
**Multidisciplinary Approaches**
**Knowledge Networking**
**Learning and Intelligent Systems**
**New Approaches to Computation**

## Life and Earth’s Environment

**Life and Earth’s Environment**

**Life in Extreme Environments**** **
**Urban Communities**

## 	Educating for the Future: the

**Research Experiences for****Undergraduates (REU)**
**CAREER**
**GOALI**
**Systemic Reform**

**	****Educating for the Future: the**
**Integration of Research and Education**

## Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT)

**Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT)**

**Designed to broaden and increase flexibility of graduate education**
**Offer integrated education across disciplines**
**Based on research training groups and traineeships**
**Synergized with CAREER/GOALI**** **
**$20 Million in FY 1998**

## Facilities Investments

**Facilities Investments**

**New Starts:**
**Polar Cap Observatory**
**Millimeter Array *****(1st Phase)****** ***
**LIGO:  Completion of Funding**** **
**South Pole:  Continued Investment**

## NSF FY 1998 RequestOperations Context

**NSF FY 1998 Request****Operations Context**

**Balanced Portfolio**
**Low Overhead, High Efficiency**
**Increased Investment in Key Areas**

## Investment Portfolio:  Setting Priorities

**Field specific:  physics vs. chemistry, science vs. engineering**
**Mode of support: individual investigators vs.**
**   ****centers, people vs. facilities**
**Conceptual: basic vs. applied, fundamental vs. strategic, analysis vs. synthesis, hands-on vs. abstract learning, hard vs. soft**
**Balanced Risk: embryonic vs. emerging vs. state of the art**

## Return on Investments in S&E andPartnership Opportunities

**Investments in S&E= job creation and economic growth**
**1/2 of real economic growth in U.S. economy over past 50 years attributable to advances in S&T**
**Edwin Mansfield **
**linkage between academic research and innovation in industry=high rates of return**
**CHI Report**
**73% of scientific papers cited on U.S. industrial patents came from publicly supported science**
**Linkage between basic research and commercial technology development -- critical for economy and quality of life**
**Industry increasingly dependent on publicly supported research**

## “Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team.”

***“******Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team.”***