The Future
Budget Outlook
- FY 1999 - Good
- Year 2000 and later - Very good
Indicators
- June 3, 1998 Letter of the Presidential Advisory Committee
- “...information technology presents enormous opportunities for growing the economy and improving health care, education, ... and many other areas of importance to the nation .... we should be increasing, not decreasing federal investments in this area.”
- President Clinton’s statement at MIT
- “...In the budget I submit to the Congress for the year 2000, I will call for significant increases in computing and communications research. I have directed Dr. Neal Lane, my new advisor for Science and Technology, to work with our nation’s research community to prepare a detailed plan for my review.”
- Congressional good will