Office of Science and Technology Policy

• OSTP’s role expanding under new law

  The White House agency will help coordinate the process around prize competitions, science and technology education efforts and online access to government data. The America Competes law details several news policy directives for OSTP and other federal scientific agencies.

  Budget

  January 27, 2011
• NIST, DHS to partner with financial industry on cybersecurity

  The agencies sign a MOU to work more closely on research and development on new technologies to protect the financial services sector\'s critical infrastructure. This agreement follows a pilot DHS and DoD have been working on to share threat information.

  Defense

  December 07, 2010
• NIST to coordinate interagency cyber effort

  Computer breaches starting to level off, GISLA awards open for nominations

  Federal Drive

  April 30, 2010
• White House wants 2011 budgets to reflect science and tech priorities

  The White House wants agencies to shift priorities as they develop their fiscal 2011 budget submissions to focus more on the administration\'s science and technology priorities.

  Budget

  August 05, 2009
• Senators focus on FAA, not CTO at hearing

  Lawmakers push for faster and more inclusive implementation of new air traffic control system. CTO nominee Chopra faces little scrutiny from committee.

  Technology

  May 20, 2009