CISE is proposed to receive the largest increase of any NSF directorate in FY 2000, as the agency prepares to take the lead role in the Administration's IT 2 initiative. NSF provides about 33 percent of the total federal support for academic engineering research. GEO is the principal source of federal support for academic research in atmospheric, geological, and oceanographic sciences. Approximately 2,500 scientists and students use the fleet's 28 ships annually, accounting for about 75 percent of its total use. In other MPS subfields, NSF support accounts for between 25 and 100 percent of federal funding of basic research.
International connections are strong and critical.
MPS supports ten Science and Technology Centers and 29 Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers, as well as three Environmental Molecular Science Institutes and three Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes. SBE is one of the primary sources of support of basic research in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. For fields such as anthropology, archaeology, and political science, NSF is the sole source of federal research support. In other fields, such as sociology and social psychology, NSF provides more than half of all federal support. NSF provides more than one-third of federal support for basic research in economics.