Budget Sequestration Information

The Office of Research and Economic Development is monitoring developments regarding the federal budget. This website will be updated as new information is received.  Check the Announcements column at right for the latest memos and communications from funding agencies and others.

UNL UPDATES:

• Sequestration Update from VCRED Prem Paul (3-1-13)

ASSOCIATIONS | GROUPS

Society of Research Administrators International

• Sequestration Resource Center

Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities

• Story: Seven Months of Sequestration Already Eroding America’s Research Capabilities
• Op-Ed: Maintaining America’s Role as the World’s Innovation Leader

REPORTS | BRIEFS

Research!America report

• Report: Sequestration: Health Research at the Breaking Point
• February 2013 update

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation

• Report:Eroding Our Foundation: Sequestration, R&D, Innovation and U.S. Economic Growth

American Institute of Physics

• The Wolf at the Door: Likely Impacts of Sequestraton

American Association for the Advancement of Science

•  Brief: Federal R&D and Sequestration in the First Five Years

AGENCIES

National Endowment for the Humanities

• Sequestration: A Public Notice

National Institutes of Health

• Sequestration Operation Plan

National Science Foundation

• Sequestration Impact Notice

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• Environment Secretary Letter to Appropriations Committee

U.S. Department of Agriculture

• Agriculture Secretary on Sequestration

U.S. Department of Defense

• Sequestration Center

U.S. Department of Education

• Education Secretary Testimony

U.S. Department of Transportation

• Transportation Secretary on Sequestration

CONGRESS | EXECUTIVE BRANCH

Congressional Budget Office

• Federal budget graphic

Congressional Reports

• National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (Simpson-Bowles report)
• Bipartisan Policy Center (Domenici report)

Executive Branch

• Office of Management and Budget sequestration reports
• OMB Report to Congress on the Joint Committee D Committee Sequestration for 2013
• The White House blog  State-by-State Breakdown

NEWS

• Pew Charitable Trusts Sequester Will Force Universities to Scale  Back Scientific Research
• Federal Times Sequester, Spending Bill Chop NASA Funding
• The Chronicle of Higher Education Senate Moves to Limit NSF Spending on Political Science
• The Washington Post  Federal Agencies: Sequestration Impacts