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  Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2008: 

  http://opencrs.cdt.org/document/RL34048

  Summary: The Bush Administration has requested $142.7 billion in federal research and development (R&D) funding for FY2008.As in the recent past, the FY2008 proposed increase over the FY2007 funding level ... is due to significant funding increases in the Department of Defense (DOD); the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) space vehicles development program; and the continuation of the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI). The President initiated the ACI in FY2007 and continues to promote it in his FY2008 R&D budget. While the ACI is likely to be well received by lawmakers, other administration proposals for agency R&D funding are likely to encounter strong opposition in Congress. For example, the administration's proposed budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is $28.5 billion, a decrease of $529 million (1.8%) below the estimated 2007 funding level. This proposed level represents the fifth year in a row the administration has proposed cutting NIH's   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 13 September 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  A Comparison of Science and Technology Spending for DoD s Space and Nonspace Programs [pdf]

  http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/89xx/doc8913/01-15-DoD.pdf

  www.cbo.gov CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE Peter R. Orszag, Director U.S. Congress Washington, DC 20515 January 15, 2008 Honorable Terry Everett Ranking Member Subcommittee on Strategic Forces Committee on ... Armed Services U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Congressman: At your request, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has analyzed whether a difference exists between the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) funding for science and technology (S&T) activities supporting unclassified space programs and its funding for S&T activities supporting other (nonspace) programs. The enclosed report indicates that funding for S&T activities supporting unclassified space programs has been less than S&T funding for other defense programs and that DoD’s plans for the future maintain that difference in funding. (Because of a lack of information, CBO’s analysis does not address the extent to which classified research might be supporting unclassified space programs.) If you would like fu   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 18 January 2008, by: Tim Woodall  [Report as spam]

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  Web 2.0 funding goes global - Times Online 

  http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article2473532.ece

  The “Web 2.0” start-up scene has spread beyond its San Francisco Bay homeland as investors pump funds into new internet businesses in Europe and Israel in their search for the next Facebook or YouTube. ... Investors directed a record $464.2 million (£232.2 million) into 101 Web 2.0 deals worldwide in the first half of the year, according to Dow Jones VentureOne and Ernst & Young LLP, up more than 7 per cent from the same period last year. Web 2.0 companies generally feature user-created content and services that allow users to communicate and collaborate. Typical applications include podcasts, blogs, social networks, mashups and wikis. However, a 14 per cent rise in the number of Web 2.0 deals was entirely attributable to the rising interest in the sector outside America – and especially in Europe and Israel – the researchers added. US investments were virtually unchanged from the first half of 2006 with $357 million invested in 67 deals. In Europe, the United Kingdom posted the most a   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 18 September 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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