Science:
Although numerous government agencies are experiencing budget
cuts, NIST may do fairly well in 2013, writes Robert Service
for
Science. Yesterday a Senate appropriations
subcommittee recommended raising NIST's funding $75 million
over the current 2012 budget to a total of $826 million, a
roughly 10% increase. Today the Republican-controlled House
Appropriations Committee proposed nearly identical numbers to
its Democrat-led Senate counterpart, which would boost the
agency's overall budget by $79 million, to $830 million.
