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FY 06 Appropriations: Energy and Water -- Not so Awful...

...all things considered.

The House passed the conference version of the FY 06 Energy and Water Appropriations bill (H.R. 2419) today (399-17). Included in the bill is funding for the Department of Energy's Office of Science, and within the Office of Science, the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research. Both the Office of Science and ASCR will see slight increases in FY 06 compared to FY 05. Office of Science will see an increase of $33 million over FY 05 -- $170 million over the Administration's request -- to $3.63 billion. ASCR received $237.1 million, $30 million more than the President's request and $5 million more than FY 05 (an increase of about 2.2 percent).

Neither increase is particularly dramatic, but in a year in which the pressure to cut discretionary spending is relatively severe, DOE computing fared OK.

Here's what the appropriations conferees had to say about the program:

Advanced Scientific Computing Research.--The conference agreement includes $237,055,000 for advanced scientific computing research, an increase of $30,000,000 over the budget request. This increase is provided to the Center for Computational Sciences to accelerate the efforts to develop a leadership-class supercomputer to meet scientific computational needs. Of this $30,000,000, $25,000,000 should be dedicated to hardware and $5,000,000 to competitive university research grants

The bill is expected to get Senate approval on Thursday.

Posted by PeterHarsha at November 9, 2005 09:52 PM | TrackBack
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