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Cantwell, Bipartisan Group of Senators Tell Appropriators: America’s Competitive…

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U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, led a bipartisan letter to Senate Appropriators underscoring that Congress must fully fund the CHIPS and Science Act in the Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations Bill to ensure U.S. global economic and technological leadership.

“CHIPS and Science marks a significant bipartisan commitment to domestic manufacturing, regional innovation and strong supply chains,” the senators wrote. “Fully funded, it will foster an inclusive and highly-skilled 21st century workforce, expand scientific research and development across the nation, and unleash American innovation in emerging technologies.

Sen. Cantwell was joined in the letter by Sens. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Jack Reed (D-R.I), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.).

In their letter, the senators warned of the repercussions resulting from past failures to fund commitments Congress made in both the America COMPETES Act of 2007 and 2010.

“The lack of funding for these efforts prohibited agencies from fully delivering on their potential,” they wrote. “Instead of the rapid growth in technological strength Congress envisioned, the United States has suffered insufficient growth in the skilled workforce, increased supply chain vulnerabilities and rising competition from overseas.”

“To fulfill the promise of the CHIPS and Science Act, Congress must avoid the funding pitfalls that followed previous COMPETES Acts and fully fund the Chips and Science Act,” the senators added.  

The senators highlighted the critical priorities in the bipartisan bill, including:

  1. Department of Commerce Regional Technology Hubs and Recompete Pilot Program to stimulate technology innovation and workforce development in up to 20 geographically distributed regions and in persistently distressed communities. 

  2. National Science Foundation Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships to establish at least 10 research-driven Regional Innovation Engines and to help university technology transfer offices increase the patenting and startup activity needed to translate research into useful products.

  3. National Science Foundation Research and Workforce Development efforts to begin tripling the size of the NSF’s education efforts, which will create more than 40,000 new scholarships, fellowships and traineeships.

  4. National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) and Manufacturing USA institutes, which will build on MEP’s 2021 track record of creating and retaining 125,746 U.S. manufacturing jobs and support small- and medium-sized manufacturers with cybersecurity, worker training, supply chain resiliency and technology adoption.

 

The letter can be found here and below:

 

November 21, 2022

 


The Honorable Patrick Leahy

Chairman

Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate

Washington, DC 20510

 

The Honorable Richard Shelby

Vice Chairman

Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate

Washington, DC 20510

 

The Honorable Jeanne Shaheen

Chair

Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice,
Science,

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America’s earlier offers the product for topping China in science and know-how

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Set from China’s technological gains, President Biden is urging Congress to ship him the Innovation Act, which will pump federal funding into science and know-how exploration and semiconductor producing.

A heritage of Chilly War victories in the Space Race and protection-funded technologies is inspiring lawmakers to reassert the government’s purpose in fueling innovation throughout a new period of geopolitical levels of competition.

Congress and the Biden administration are embracing industrial coverage to assure competitiveness in science and know-how. They hope that by ranking industries and systems dependent on strategic relevance, they can situation the United States to increase the lengthy heritage of the govt driving progress very well into the 21st century.

Historically, this strategy of authorities course and funding ensured the United States was at the vanguard of world wide technological innovation, as it released revolutions in facts, wellness and weapons due to the fact 1945.

The roots of how the governing administration can drive the growth of science and technologies in fact stretch back to the 19th century. Property Speaker Henry Clay’s “American Technique” of 1824 proposed transforming a disjointed United States into a networked nation.

At the time of Clay’s two-day-very long 40-site speech, European economies overshadowed the fledgling American economic system with its fragmented and dysfunctional infrastructure. To counter these deficits, the government employed import taxes to promote industrialization and acquire infrastructure.

The American Process obtained its aims, and the federal government repeated this sample of investing to catalyze nationwide development all over the country’s expansion westward for the duration of the rest of the 19th century. The federal federal government sponsored land grant faculties, railroads and settlements to inspire economic progress and understanding manufacturing in the course of the growing place.

The involvement of the federal government in the economy during Environment War I persuaded a technology of Democratic politicians, reformers and economists that authorities paying could gasoline innovation and financial advancement. In the 1930s, they seized on this notion when the Fantastic Melancholy wracked the United States. They retained pushing govt paying out and financial investment to travel innovation as the United States fought Planet War II in the 1940s.

For the duration of the 1930s, authorities financed bridges, dams and airfields. This was adopted by wartime investment decision in military services bases, ports and nationwide laboratories through the 1940s. This New Offer and Entire world War II expertise grew the dimensions of federal government and entrenched a new comprehending of government as the engine of growth for infrastructure and technological innovation.

But even after a century of a governmental job in producing local and nationwide infrastructure, it was the Manhattan Challenge and the to start with mass manufacturing of penicillin in the 1940s that cemented the United States’ location in spearheading science and technological innovation developments in weapons, strength and health and fitness. Federal shelling out and the arrivals of immigrants propelled the United States to the forefront of science unlike just before in the

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