Washington Perspective

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Washington Perspective

• Sue Fratkin
• Consultant, EDUCAUSE
• sfratkin_at_educause.edu

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State Issues

• State Legislatures are considering
• Electronic voter registration databases
• Internet databases, tracking systems or
  informative web sites
• Increased technology investments for
  communications and networks, and software
• However, hardware and maintenance will be flat

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Overall Budget

• Dept of Defense
• Decrease of 9 to 402.6B
• Increased funds for defense systems development
  and RD
• (no for Afghanistan or Iraq)
• Homeland Security
• Increase of 8.9 to 31.4B
• Includes FBI and INS

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NSF Budget FY2005

• 3 Overall budget increase - 167M
• Specifically, RRA 4.7 over current year
• 6 new ST Centers overall funding increase of
  30M, to 72.4M
• House Science Committee hearing February 11

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NSF

• Education HR
• Math Science partnerships (140M) shifting to
  Dept of Ed
• Hill will challenge
• CISE
• 20M requested for 21st Century Workforce
• Cyberinfrastructure up to 20M

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Dept of Education

• 5 increase to 66.4B
• State technology grants no increase - 691.8M
• Community Colleges
• 250M for job training
• Star Schools
• 2003 27.3M
• 2004 20.3M
• 2005 proposed no funding

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Dept of Commerce

• Commerce overall 1 decrease to 5.8B
• NTIA
• increase request of 7.1 million, to foster
  technological leadership in telecommunications
• Administration had proposed 22M for 2004

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Questions?

• Thank you!
• Sue Fratkin
• sfratkin_at_educause.edu