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President’s 2001 Budget Request: An S&T Overview
The Clinton Administration’s final budget request calls for substantial increases in most civilian R&D areas. Overall, civilian R&D would see a six percent increase totaling $2.5 billion and would surpass military R&D spending, which, at $42 billion, essentially would be held level with FY 2000 appropriations.
The Administration also proposed funding for several technology-related initiatives in the $1.84 trillion budget; many of these were announced during the last two weeks of January. The centerpiece remains the 21st Century Research Fund, a packaging of new and existing programs used by the Clinton Administration to measure federal investment in basic and applied research. Aggregated, the programs within the fund would receive a seven percent increase of $2.8 billion.