This would seem to be encouraging news from May 23 2009, The Kiplinger Letter:
Excerpt: -------------------------------------------------------- FEDERAL SPENDING: Gaining prominence in Washington: Science research...even basic science, which doesn't yield quick economic payoff. It's cheering news for business, which struggled against President Bush distaste for a large federal research role. Congress will approve spending billions more on basic and applied sciences in 2010 and beyond. Later this year, lawmakers will dole out about $135 billion in fiscal 2010 to more than two dozen federal agencies, labs and other facilities working on everything from antiviral drugs to batteries to water reclamation. That's 18% more than this year and 27% more than Uncle Sam forked over in 2008. Plus it doesn't include more than $1 billion allocated for science research in 2010 in the stimulus package. Particularly promising areas worth noting: More funds for high risk, high return research at private companies...usually small ones...on projects that might otherwise not get done at all. Among them: Nanotechnology for improving energy storage. Software for weather forecasting. Deep-sea-mineral detection. Superlightweight ceramic and composite materials. Awards for medical innovations, such as alternative treatments for cancer and other early stage biomedical work that lacks the data for the big federal grants. And more cooperative energy research with university and private firms. -------------------------------------------------------- Perhaps MPI or Ultraconductors will be able to secure a tiny slice of the pie. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
