National Science Foundation: FY 2013 Priorities and Budget

1. National Science Foundation:FY 2013 Priorities and Budget October 31, 2012 Mr. Michael Sieverts Director, Budget Division Office of Budget, Finance, and Award Management National Science Foundation msievert@nsf.gov 1

2. Formulation Planning Execution Evaluation & Assessment Introduction • Budget Division responsibilities: • Development, analysis, and execution of NSF’s annual budget to OMB and Congress • Assist long-range planning and performance assessment across NSF 2

3. NSF “Priorities” • Overarching: • Merit Review Criteria • Strategic Goals • OneNSF • Specific: • Annual Budget/Investment Priorities 3

4. Overarching NSF Priorities: Merit Review Criteria • Intellectual Merit: the potential to advance knowledge. • Broader Impacts: the potential to benefit society and contribute to the achievement of specific, desired societal outcomes. 4

5. Overarching NSF Priorities: NSF Strategic Goals • Empowering the Nation Through Discovery and Innovation • Strategic Goals: • Transform the Frontiers • Innovate for Society • Perform as a Model Organization 5

6. OneNSF Philosophy • Aims to enable seamless operations across organizational and disciplinary boundaries. • Empowers NSF to respond to new challenges in a changing global environment, leverage resources, and provide leadership. 6

7. NSF’s FY 2013 Budget Request • $7.4 billion, +$340 million over FY 2012 Enacted • Consistent with the Administration’s commitment to doubling NSF and basic research agencies • Emphasizes ways that fundamental research contributes to addressing national challenges 7

8. NSF’s FY 2013 Budget Request 8

9. NSF’s Guiding Principles: Budget Process • Maintain commitments to existing awards • Protect human capital development • Pursue innovative approaches to address cutting-edge challenges • Adopt more efficient organizational practices 9

10. OMB/OSTP Priorities • For FY 2014, OMB/OSTP identified a set of multi-agency science and technology priorities (M-12-15) • Good alignment with NSF’s FY 2013 Investments 10

11. Alignment of Administration and NSF Priorities 11

12. Major FY 2013 Investments • Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) • Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science, Engineering, and Education (CIF21) • Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE) • Innovation Corps (I-Corps) • Expeditions in Education (E2) • Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) • National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) • Networking and Information Technology (NITRD) 12

13. Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) • Mission: To advance science, engineering, and education to inform the societal actions needed for environmental and economic sustainability and sustainable human well-being • Established in FY 2010 • Cross-NSF investment • Portfolio of existing and new programs • System-based approaches 13

14. New SEES Focus Areas • Arctic regions (“ArcSEES”) • Vulnerability, resilience, cultural impacts • funding began in FY 2012 (NSF 12-553) • Sustainable Chemistry, Engineering and Materials (“SusChEM”) • Renewables, non-toxic materials, natural resources • funding to begin in FY 2013 (NSF 12-097) • Coastal regions (“CoastalSEES”) • Vulnerability, resilience, cultural impacts • funding to begin in FY 2013 (NSF 12-594) • Hazards and Disasters (“HazardsSEES”) • Prediction, risk assessment, decision-making • funding to begin in FY 2013 (NSF 12-610) • Information Science and Engineering (“CyberSEES”) • Large-scale data management and analytics, advanced sensing techniques • funding to begin in FY 2013 (NSF 13-500) 14

15. Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE) • Creative Research Awards for Transformative Interdisciplinary Ventures (CREATIV) • New interdisciplinary opportunities • Creative high-risk / high-reward interdisciplinary proposals • Provide substantial funding (up to $1M over 5 years) • Open to all NSF-supported areas of science, engineering, and education research • Open pilot mechanism under INSPIRE in FY 2013 • Larger “mid-scale” interdisciplinary awards up to $2.5-$3.0M • Utilize novel internal & external merit review approaches 15

16. NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) • Public-private partnership program to teach grantees to identify valuable product opportunities from research • Small grants focus on creating a commercialization roadmap • Based on previous NSF support • Expedited review • Teams composed of academic researchers, student entrepreneurs, and business mentors • Curriculum adapts Stanford University’s Lean LaunchPad course • Nodes support regional needs for innovation education, infrastructure and research • Regional Node Program (NSF 12-586); Deadline: October 19, 2012 • www.nsf.gov/i-corps 16

17. Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) • A portfolio of activities that provides integrated cyber resources to enable new multidisciplinary research • Challenges: • Integrate theoretical, experimental, observational, simulation and modeling results to address increasingly complex research questions • Synthesize ground breaking efforts across multiple fields to take advantage of knowledge and research capabilities of universities, industry and government labs • Leverage ongoing investments and utilize shared approaches and components to speed advances and minimize duplication 17

18. Expeditions in Education (E2) • Cross-directorate, interdisciplinary effort focusing on undergraduate education • Infuse cutting-edge science and engineering into preparation of a world-class scientific workforce for 21st century • Ensure all NSF education and workforce investments are drawing on latest educational theory, research, evidence 18

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20. Status of FY 2013 Budget • Six month continuing resolution funds NSF at FY 2012 enacted levels, prorated for the duration of the CR. • Sequestration or the “fiscal cliff” looming. • Not much more will be known until after the November elections 20