A Synthesis of Concerns about Budget and Policy Development.
Abstract
This study addresses the challenge the country faces in identifying potential improvements in the framework and process for federal policy and budget decisions affecting the U.S. science and engineering base. Thus, it responds to portions of the agenda in a major review of national science policy initiated by the Science Policy Task Force, House Committee on Science and Technology. A number of questions identified for examination in the Task Force Agenda (An Agenda for Study of Government Science Policy, Committee Print 40-869, Dec. 1984) relate to the setting of policies and priorities for the science and engineering base. These include questions about the adequacy of the existing institutional framework and processes for formulating national science policy, for determining priorities for federal investment in research, and for over-seeing the status and direction of our national scientific effort. Also, the Task Force Agenda specifically expresses the need and intent to reexamine the pluralistic system for budgeting and supporting science. It specifically cites the need to reexamine the level of stability of research funding, the roles of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of Management and Budget and the use of advisory of bodies.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1987
- Accession Number
- ADA178748
Entities
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office