Trends in Federal Support of Research and Graduate Education

The Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy updated its 1999 analysis (Appendix A, Securing America''s Industrial Strength, 1999) of changes since 1990 in the distribution of federal research funding by field of science and engineering) by incorporating FY 1998 and FY 1999 obligations from the NSF Federal Funds survey, with particular attention to the trends in basic research support, cha...