![]() ![]() Let’s call that budget the FY budget.Īt the same time, the FY+1 budget is under consideration by Congress that budget is (normally) submitted to Congress by the president during the first week in February of FY, i.e., four months after the start of FY and eight months prior to the start of FY+1. The budget for fiscal year (FY) 2017, from Octoto September 30, 2017, is being executed by agencies now. federal government is normally working on three annual budgets simultaneously. In this Part Two, I will give a short tutorial on the federal budget as a whole and where R&D fits into it, and a mid-September update on the congressional budget marks for FY18.Īs a reminder from Part One, the U.S. research and development (R&D) funding, contrasted with that of some other nations, and then provided an early June update on the administration’s proposed budget for next fiscal year (FY18) and a call to the physics community to respond. First, in Part One in the September issue, I covered some historical trends in U.S. This Back Page article is spread in two parts across two issues of APS News. I hadn’t actually paid a lot of attention to the entire federal budget until I became a federal employee, and then I found it to be quite sobering. Department of Energy (DOE), which as the APS News readership knows is the largest funder of physical science research in the federal government. ![]() When I gave a presentation at the APS “April” Meeting last January I had just completed my appointment as the Director of Science at the U.S. ![]()
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