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PROGRAMS: SCIENCE &
TECHNOLOGY
Science and Technology is
an integral tool in achieving overall U.S. foreign policy and other
national goals, cooperation in science and technology plays a vital role
in preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, meeting
the challenges of "megascience" research, providing a framework for
promoting sustainable development, increasing energy security, and
strengthening the economic ties that underlie global
stability.
Resources
Science NetLinks is
part of the MarcoPolo, a partnership between the Verizon Foundation
and eight premier educational organizations. The MarcoPolo partners
include the AAAS, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
National Council on Economic Education, the National Geographic
Society, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the
International Reading Association, the National Council of Teachers
of English, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts.
Science.gov was launched in December 2002, providing
for the first time wide public access and a unified search of the
government’s vast stores of scientific and technical information.
Science.gov is an interagency initiative of 16 U.S. government
science organizations within 12 Federal agencies. These agencies
form the voluntary Science.gov Alliance. Visitors to the site can search across
Alliance agency resources via one query.
Congress established the Office of Science and Technology
Policy in 1976 with a broad mandate to advise the President
and others within the Executive Office of the President on the
effects of science and technology on domestic and international
affairs. The 1976 Act also authorizes OSTP to lead an interagency
effort to develop and to implement sound science and technology
policies and budgets and to work with the private sector, state and
local governments, the science and higher education communities, and
other nations toward this end.
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The
National Science and
Technology Council (NSTC) was established by Executive Order on November 23, 1993.
This Cabinet-level Council is the principal means for the President
to coordinate science and technology across the diverse parts
of the Federal research and development enterprise. Chaired by the
President, the NSTC membership consists of the Vice President,
the Science Advisor to the President, Cabinet Secretaries and Agency
Heads with significant science and technology responsibilities, and
other White House officials.
The National
Science Foundation
(NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…" With an annual budget of about $5.5 billion, we are the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.
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The International Agreements
Database provides
information on bilateral and multilateral agreements between the United
States and other countries. Since International Science and Technology
relationships have become integral tools in achieving overall U.S. foreign
policy and other national goals, cooperation in science and technology
plays a vital role in preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction, meeting the challenges of "megascience" research, providing a
framework for promoting sustainable development, increasing energy
security, and strengthening the economic ties that underlie global
stability.
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