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05/01/03

House committee approves nanotechnology funding

By William Jackson
GCN Staff

The House Science Committee has approved a bill establishing a National Nanotechnology Research and Development Program, authorizing $2.4 billion in funding over the next three years.

Floor action for HR 766 has tentatively been scheduled for next week.

The bill, sponsored by chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.) and Mike Honda (D-Calif.), passed by a voice vote Thursday. The purpose is to ?ensure continued U.S. leadership in nanotechnology? R&D. The National Science Foundation has predicted there will be a $1 trillion market for devices and systems operating at the atomic and molecular level within a decade.

The bill would establish a National Nanotechnology Coordination Office to oversee the funding, through five federal agencies, of interdisciplinary research by individuals, teams and academic institutions. The office also would encourage the transfer of technology and development of commercial applications.

An advisory committee would evaluate the work of the office and address ethical concerns.

Agencies receiving funds would be the National Science Foundation, the Energy Department, NASA, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Environmental Protection Agency. The agencies would receive $713 million in fiscal 2004, $784.5 million the following year, and $864 million in 2006.

Einzelheiten unter :

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.766:


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May 7, 2003
House Passes Nanotechnology Bill
By Roy Mark


The U.S. House of Representatives passed its first major technology legislation Wednesday, authorizing $2.36 billion over three years for nanotechnology research and development programs. The bill, the Nanotechnology Research and Development Act of 2002 (HR 766), provides a formal structure for coordination of research across a number of federal agencies.

Nanotechnology refers to the ability of scientists and engineers to manipulate matter at the level of single atoms, and small groups of atoms. With new tools, structural properties of matter 1/100,000 the width of hair are being manipulated by researchers, and the technology holds the promise of changing the way many things are designed and made in information technology, medicine, energy, biotechnology, electronics and other fields.

For the technology sector, nanotechnology processes could possibly allow semiconductor innovation to advance Moore`s Law beyond the limitations imposed by today`s design, development, and fabrication tools.

The emerging science is the top inter-agency priority in the Bush Administration`s fiscal 2004 proposed budget for non-medical, civilian scientific and technological research and development. The National Science Foundation (NSF) conservatively predicts a $1 trillion global market for nanotechnology in little over a decade.

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May 7, 2003
Korea Invests $2 Billion in Nanotechnology
By Soon-A Cho, eWEEK Korea

Nine Korean government agencies, including the ministries of Information and Communication, Science and Technology and Commerce, Industry and Energy, have joined together to launch the $2 billion 2003 NanoTechnology Development Program.

The government in Seoul, which has been working to promote nanotechnology since last year, announced that the investment program will support R&D for core research, securing R&D infrastructure and bolstering commercial scale applications of nanotechnology.

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Last year`s investments in nanotechnology laid the basis for R&D, training scientists and building the research infrastructure, according to officials. Expanding an initial R&D investment of $800 million by $400 million was largely credited with propelling Korea into sixth place worldwide in terms of the number of nanotechnology related research theses and patents.