In 2014, the U.S. government will spend just over $60 billion on non-defense research. It’s a small part of the overall budget (as the saying goes, our government is an insurance company with an army), but when it comes to non-defense “discretionary spending” on things like education, transportation, law enforcement, and the environment, research receives more than 10 percent—not exactly small change. Given the urgent need for money to do things like address our border crisis and fix our decaying infrastructure, Congress wants to know: Are we getting the most out of our research dollars?
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