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      "id": 102725,
      "date": "2004-06-28",
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      "title": "Federal Homeland Security Research and Development Funding: Issues of Data Quality",
      "summary": "Section 889 of the Homeland Security Act,  P.L. 107-296 , requires the Office of Management\nand\nBudget (OMB) to report homeland security budget data annually to Congress and to consult with\nCongress to identify homeland security activities for this purpose. Accurate information is needed\nin order to set and coordinate priorities and policy for federal homeland security research and\ndevelopment (R&D).  P.L. 107-296  gave the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)\nSecretary,\nacting through the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, coordination responsibilities to\nensure that federal homeland security R&D serves DHS's internal needs, supports the agencies\ntransferred to DHS, contributes to presidentially defined homeland security missions, and ensures\nthat federal homeland security R&D programs do not duplicate or leave gaps. According to the\nUnder Secretary, federal homeland security R&D will be coordinated by fall 2004. Legislation\nhas\nbeen introduced to require DHS to prioritize and consolidate all of its R&D activities that are\nnot\nnow managed by the agency's Science and Technology Directorate ( H.R. 4141 / S. 2285 ).\n  OMB data show that federal funding for homeland security R&D was requested at $3.6\n billion\nfor FY2005; DHS's R&D programs constitute about one-third of total funding. Other agencies\nwith\nlarge homeland security R&D budgets are the National Institutes of Health, the Department of\nDefense, the Department of Justice, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Agriculture,\nthe Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Commerce. \n  OMB has collected cross-agency funding data on homeland security R&D for several\n years. \nThis is a difficult task on which OMB is making progress. Data are now collected for different\npurposes; data sets often conflict. In its  Combating Terrorism  reports, OMB publishes\nsummary data\nby agency on combating terrorism R&D and summarizes some programs. It describes homeland\nsecurity R&D as a subset of combating terrorism R&D and has not published data on\nhomeland\nsecurity R&D funding,  per se . OMB publishes data on homeland security funding\nby agency,\nsubdivided by programs or units, in tables appended to the FY2005 budget request. It is not possible\nto identify clearly programs for R&D using these data. OMB has also produced an unpublished\nhomeland security R&D data table; it is not widely circulated and gives only total funding by\nagency.\nA 2004 Congressional Budget Office report found shortcomings in federal homeland security\nfunding data. \n  Problems with the accuracy and consistency of R&D data may be caused by inaccurate\nreporting, federal agencies' use of different definitions, or changing conceptions of \"homeland\nsecurity\" over time. Among options Congress could consider are requiring agencies to use\nstandardized definitions of homeland security R&D, or mandating that OMB or DHS prepare\nan\nannual accounting specifically of homeland security R&D funding and activities. See also  CRS Report RL32481(pdf) ,  Homeland Security R&D Funding and Activities in Federal Agencies:\nA\nPreliminary Inventory , by Genevieve J. Knezo.\n  This report will not be updated.",
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