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Science 10 September 1999:
Vol. 285. no. 5434, pp. 1679 - 1680
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5434.1679
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Policy Forum

SCIENCE PRIORITIES:
Who's Balancing the Federal Research Portfolio and How?

Stephen A. Merrill and Michael McGeary

Although balance is advocated in laws and guidelines for those who set U.S. budget priorities, the changes in funding by field over the past 20 years have been uneven. The authors advocate evaluating fields that have seen a reduction in funding to assess the projected effect on the national interests, open discussion involving the science and engineering communities, and a response from R&D spending planners.

The authors are, respectively, executive director of and consultant to the National Research Council's Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, FO 2014, Washington, DC 20418, USA. E-mail: smerrill{at}nas.edu. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent the views of the STEP Board nor the National Academies.

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