American Competitiveness Initiative

The American Competitiveness Initiative has increased the NITRD budgets of agencies that are part of the Initiative. The Initiative calls for a doubling over ten years of the investment in three federal agencies that support basic research programs in the physical sciences and engineering: the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy’s Office of Science (DOE/SC), and the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) &mdash; are NITRD Program member agencies.