[PDF] Observations on the President’s Fiscal Year 2002 Federal Science and Technology Budget Committee on the Federal Science and Technology Budget, Engineering, and Public Policy Committee on Science, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine

Fourth in a series of annual reports, this study provides observations on the Administration?s FY 2002 budget proposal for federal science and technology (FS&T) programs. The report comments first on approaches to tabulating federal spending on FS&T and endorses the Administration?s method for developing an FS&T budget cross-tabulation for inclusion in its budget proposal. The report then provides observations on the FY 2002 FS&T budget proposal, identifying changes in FS&T investments by federal agencies from the prior year; and assessing the longer-term impacts of these FS&T proposals in various fields.