Obama’s FY 2011 Budget

President Obama’s $3.8 trillion proposed budget for 2011 includes a great deal of technological improvements and upgrades in several Federal Departments. The following summary is a compilation that was published by ZDNet, posted by Larry Dignan, http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=30283&tag=nl.e539:

Department of Defense will receive $548.9 billion,  3.4% higher than 2010, to improve their health IT infrastructure.

Department of Commerce budget, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is proposed to get $712 million for a variety of new technologies, ranging from nanotechnology and computer security advances to energy conservation systems.

National Science Foundation is getting an 8 percent funding increase with efforts to push along sustainability research and science education. Overall, the National Science Foundation is projected to have a $7.4 billion budget for fiscal 2011, up 8 percent from 2010

The Department of Energy’s proposed $28.4 billion fiscal 2011 budget includes $300 million for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy “to accelerate game-changing energy technologies in need of rapid and flexible experimentation or engineering.

Department of Health and Human Services is proposed to receive $81.3 billion; including $110 million for health IT coordination and research.

The Department of Homeland Security got a proposed $44 billion and there’s a $734 million chunk designed to deploy about 1,000 new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) screening machines at airport checkpoints and new explosive detection equipment for baggage screening.

The Department of Transportation is proposed to receive $1.14 billion, more than a 30 percent increase from 2010 for the Next Generation Air Transportation System.

The total Department of Treasury funding for fiscal 2011 is $13.94 billion, up from $13.5 billion in 2010, for customer service and data base improvements, and a better system implementation for collecting debts.

NASA’s budget is going up: $19 billion compared to $18.7 billion in 2010. However, the space operations budget is cut to $4.88 billion proposed for fiscal 2011, down from $6.15 billion in 2010.