Obama Proposes to Increase NIST Budget

The US Department of Commerce has released details of the President's budget request for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2017 - proposing to increase spending on HPC and future computing technologies by more than 50 per cent. The total discretionary request for NIST is $1 billion, a $50.5 million increase in the enacted amount from 2016. The funding supports NIST's research in areas such as computing, advanced communications and manufacturing.

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