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Matt Hourihan: R&D spending gets a boost in 2016 budget

When President Barack Obama signed the omnibus appropriations bill just before Christmas, he enacted a big boost in dollars going to several science agencies. T...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

January 8, 2016 9:48 am

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Matt Hourihan, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

When President Barack Obama signed the omnibus appropriations bill just before Christmas, he enacted a big boost in dollars going to several science agencies. The increase was even more than the Obama administration had asked for. For analysis of federal 2016 R & D spending, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to Matt Hourihan, director of the R&D Budget and Policy program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.