Priorities include advancing trustworthy AI technology that protects people’s rights and safety, while leveraging its capabilities. Image: Andrea Izzotti/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffOMB has issued guidance to agencies on research and development priorities for the fiscal year 2025 budget request that will be sent to Congress early in 2024, adding that agencies “are expected to consult with one another during the budget formulation process to maximize impact by coordinating resources and avoiding unnecessary duplication.”
Says memo M-23-20, “To make its vital contribution to our future, federal R&D must sustain America’s leadership position in science and technology. It must take aim at and achieve bold, barely feasible goals. Federal R&D must translate into new products and services, new industries and jobs, new policies and regulations, and new standards and practices. And it must bring the power of innovation to important national missions that have not traditionally benefitted from R&D—from K12 education and workforce training to construction and traffic safety.”
The specified priorities are (in its words): advance trustworthy artificial intelligence technology that protects people’s rights and safety, and harness it to accelerate the nation’s progress; lead the world in maintaining global security and stability in the face of immense geopolitical changes and evolving risks; and step up to the global challenge of meeting the climate crisis by reimagining our infrastructures, renewing our relationship with nature, and securing environmental justice.
Also: achieve better health outcomes for every person; reduce barriers and inequities; bolster the R&D and industrial innovation that will build the nation’s future economic competitiveness from the bottom up and middle out; strengthen, advance, and use America’s unparalleled research to achieve our nation’s great aspirations.
It adds that “Clear choices will be required given constrained discretionary funding caps. Agency budget submissions should include an addendum that details how each request level addresses these priorities.”
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