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NSF-Wide
Investments for Previous Fiscal Years
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NSF's current budget request identifies key investment
areas.
NSF has
designated areas of emphasis or priority in previous budget years
as well. Those with archived material available are listed below.
NSF-WIDE INVESTMENTS IN THE FY 2008 BUDGET REQUEST
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090506070055im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/bluefade.jpg) NSF designated nine
areas for NSF-wide investments in the agency's FY 2008 budget request to Congress. The areas are:
- NSF Centers Programs and Funding
- Climate Change Science Program
- Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation
- Cyberinfrastructure
- Human and Social Dynamics
- International Polar Year
- National Nanotechnology Initiative
- Networking and Information Technology R&D
- Selected Crosscutting Programs
Details on the NSF FY 2008 Budget Request are available here.
More information about the NSF-wide investment areas is available here. (PDF)
NSF-WIDE INVESTMENTS IN THE FY 2007 BUDGET REQUEST
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NSF designated eight
areas for NSF-wide investments in the agency's FY 2007 budget request to Congress. The areas are: Biocomplexity in the Environment, Climate Change
Science Program, Cyberinfrastructure, Human and Social Dynamics, International
Polar Year, Mathematical Sciences, National Nanotechnology Initiative, and Networking
Information Technology R&D. NSF also considers crosscutting programs, sensors
research and centers as NSF-wide investments.
The FY 2007 budget request is available here.
Details on the investment areas are available here.
NSF-WIDE INVESTMENTS IN THE FY 2006 BUDGET REQUEST
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![Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NS&E)](images/0005nse.jpg) |
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Nanoscale
Science and Engineering (NSE)
Nanoscale Science and Engineering research encompasses the systematic understanding, organization, manipulation and control of matter at the atomic, molecular and supramolecular levels. |
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![Biocomplexity in the Environment (BE)](images/0004be.jpg) |
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Biocomplexity
in the Environment (BE)
Biocomplexity in the Environment seeks a more complete understanding of the dynamic interactions among living things and physical processes in the environment. |
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![Human and Social Dynamics (HSD)](images/0003hsd.jpg) |
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Human
and Social Dynamics (HSD)
Human and Social Dynamics research fosters breakthroughs in understanding human action and development, as well as knowledge about organizational, cultural and societal adaptation and change. |
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![Mathematical Sciences](images/0002math.jpg) |
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Mathematical
Sciences
Mathematical Sciences research enables progress across disciplines through advances in math and statistics research and supports the development of a mathematically literate workforce. |
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![Cyberinfrastructure](images/0006cyber.jpg) |
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Cyberinfrastructure
Cyberinfrastructure contributes to the development of a widely accessible information technology (IT) backbone that will ultimately enable innovative science and engineering research and education as well as next-generation IT capabilities. |
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FISCAL YEAR 2005
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Nanoscale Science & Engineering
(NS&E)
This priority research area seeks a more complete understanding of the Nanoscale.
Biocomplexity
in the Environment (BE)
This priority research area seeks a more complete understanding of the dynamic
interactions of living things and physical processes in the environment.
Human & Social
Dynamics (HSD)
This priority research area seeks to understand how scientific breakthroughs
and unprecedented growth in new technologies during the 20th century transformed
everyday life.
Mathematical
Sciences
The fundamental mathematical sciences embracing mathematics and statistics are
essential for research progress across disciplines and for training a mathematically
literate workforce for the future.
FISCAL YEAR 2004
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NSF identified six priority areas
in which to make a sustained level of investment in the agency's FY 2004 budget request to Congress. The areas are:
- Biocomplexity in the Environment;
- Information Technology Research
- Nanoscale Science and Engineering
- Mathematical Sciences
- Human and Social Dynamics
- Workforce for the 21st Century
For more information, see the FY 2004 Budget Request
FISCAL YEAR 2003
![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090506070055im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/bluefade.jpg) In addition to a balanced portfolio of investments that maintain the vitality of core disciplines, NSF identifies and supports emerging opportunities that hold exceptional promise to advance knowledge. Investments in each of these priority areas support a broad range of promising research directions and platforms in developing areas of science and engineering. The areas identified in the FY 2003 Budget Request to Congress are:
- Biocomplexity in the Environment
- Information Technology Research
- Nanoscale Science and Engineering
- Learning for the 21st Century Workforce
- Mathematical Sciences
- Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences
For more information, see the FY 2003 Budget Request.
FISCAL YEAR 2000
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Information Technology Research for National Priorities (ITR)
FISCAL YEAR 1999
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Digital Libraries Initiative Phase 2
This program supported innovative digital libraries research
and applications.
FISCAL YEAR 1998
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Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence
(KDI)
The
purpose of this program was to "to span the scientific and engineering communities
. . . to generate, model, and represent more complex and cross-disciplinary scientific
data from new sources and at enormously varying scales."
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