Science is the most powerful transforming force in today's world.
To evaluate how well existing science initiatives achieve outcomes. To describe and develop new policy frameworks that can help increase the positive outcomes of science, prevent or reduce the negative ones, and extend benefits to disadvantaged populations. To provide educational opportunities in the area of outcomes-based policy making. Federal science policy since World War II has been supply-oriented . That is, science policy has been dominated by the idea that more science automatically generates better societal outcomes.