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AAAS Report XXXVI: R&D FY 2012 AAAS REPORT
XXXVI

RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT
FY 2012



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Table of Contents

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List of Tables - Updated to include FY 2011

Title Page and Preface

PART I: OVERVIEW

Highlights

Chapter 1

Federal R&D in the FY 2012 Budget: An Introduction

Patrick J. Clemins, AAAS

Chapter 2

Historical Trends in Federal R&D

Patrick J. Clemins, AAAS

Chapter 3

Political and Policy Context for the FY 2012 Budget

Kasey Shewey White, AAAS

Chapter 4

Education and Workforce Development in the FY 2012 Budget

Richard Weibl, Daryl E. Chubin, and Shirley M. Malcom, AAAS

Overview Tables

PART II: AGENCY R&D BUDGETS

Chapter 5

Department of Defense

Joanne Padrón Carney, AAAS

Chapter 6

National Science Foundation

Amy Scott and Tobin Smith, AAU

Chapter 7

National Institutes of Health

Erin Heath, AAAS

Chapter 8

Department of Energy

Michael S. Lubell, APS

Chapter 9

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Ross B. Garelick Bell, AIAA

Chapter 10

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Elizabeth Allred, Ian L. Maw, and Eddie G. Gouge, APLU

Chapter 11

Department of Homeland Security

Lynn J. Daniels and Gerald L. Epstein, AAAS

Chapter 12

Other Selected Agencies (Commerce, DOT, Interior, EPA, VA)

Phillip Chalker, AAAS; and Umesh Thakkar, VA

Agency Tables

PART III: DISCIPLINARY ANALYSES

Chapter 13

Physics in the FY 2012 Budget

Richard M. Jones, AIP

Chapter 14

Astronomy and Astrophysics in the FY 2012 Budget

Bethany Johns and Kevin B. Marvel, AAS

Chapter 15

Climate in the FY 2012 Budget

Jonah V. Steinbuck Paul A. T. Higgins, AMS

Chapter 16

Earth Sciences in the FY 2012 Budget

Wilson Bonner and Linda Rowan, AGI

Chapter 17

Biological and Ecological Sciences in the FY 2012 Budget

Nadine Lymn, ESA; and Robert Gropp, AIBS

Chapter 18

Chemical Sciences in the FY 2012 Budget

Brittany C. Westlake, Caroline M. Trupp Gil and Ryan C. Davison, ACS

Chapter 19

Social and Behavioral Science Research in the FY 2012 Budget

Howard J. Silver and Angela L. Sharpe, COSSA; Heather Kelly and Patricia Kobor, APA; and Gerald R. Sroufe, AERA

Chapter 20

Federal Statistics in the FY 2012 Budget

Edward J. Spar, COPAFS

Chapter 21

Mathematical Sciences in the FY 2012 Budget

Samuel M. Rankin III, AMS

Chapter 22

Computing Research in the FY 2012 Budget

Peter Harsha and Melissa Norr, CRA

Chapter 23

National Nanotechnology Investment in the FY 2012 Budget

M.C. Roco, ASME

Chapter 24

Electrotechnology-Related Research in the FY 2012 Budget

Bill Williams, IEEE-USA

Chapter 25

Mechanical Engineering in the FY 2012 Budget

Stephen D. Tse, ASME

Chapter 26

Materials Science in the FY 2012 Budget

Ronald L. Kelley, MRS

Chapter 27

Food, Nutrition, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Sciences in the FY 2012 Budget

Caron Gala Bijl and Karl Glasener, ASA, CSSA, SSSA; William Fisher, IFT; Karen Mowrer, FASEB; Jim Gulliford, SWCS; and Lowell Randel, FASS

Appendix 1: Methodology and Data Sources

Appendix 2: Definitions

Appendix 3: Related Publications

Appendix 4: Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy

Appendix 5: Intersociety Working Group Directory


The AAAS Board of Directors, in accordance with Association policy, has approved the publication of this work as a contribution to the understanding of an important area. Any interpretations and conclusions are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent views of the Board or the Council of the Association.

 
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