White House Office of Science & Technology Policy

Congress established the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in 1976 to provide the President and Executive Office of the President (EOP) with advice on the scientific, engineering, and technological aspects of national policy and the work of the executive branch. This includes matters of the economy, national security, homeland security, health, foreign relations, the environment, education, and resource management.

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Why the American Science Machine Takes Twenty Months to Say Yes

A new White House science report assembles the metascience case that American research funding has seized up: average age at first NIH grant rose from 36 to 42, drug approvals per billion dollars have fallen eightyfold since 1950, and reviewers scoring the same proposal routinely disagree. It’s a policy document, and it quotes no independent scientists.