[USMA:44918] Increased scientific research funding.

[Scott Hudnall]

President Obama has pledged that as a nation, we should target 3% of  
GDP toward scientific research. This combined with private-sector  
spending on R & D means that a SIGNIFICANT sector of the US economy  
will be exposed to metric usage on a daily basis at work.

This is an excellent opportunity to contact some of the agencies such  
as the NSF and NIST listed here in this article stressing the  
importance of metric in the sciences.

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/43271/title/ 
Obama_pledges_3_percent_of_GDP_for_research

Scott