US IT research spending busts a billion dollars
THE FINAL BUDGET from the presidency of George W. Bush included commitments on tech spending such as $242 million to expand the Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) and $1.1 billion in “fundamental“ IT research.
The budget statement said: “$1.1 billion for fundamental information technology research and cutting-edge supercomputing and networking resources, including: $100 million, an 110-percent increase, for an NSF-wide (National Science Foundation) effort to develop radically new computational concepts and tools; and $30 million for a new targeted cyber-security research effort in privacy, fundamental theory, and usability.
"$186 million, a 17-percent increase, for a widely accessible suite of supercomputers, data warehouses, advanced networks, and experimental facilities.”
And that doesn’t even include the cost of rockets to the moon and elsewhere.
The US Congress gets to decide how much will be spent on what. µ
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Considering he's dropping $3 Trillion on the budget as a whole, $1.1 Billion feels like a drop in the bucket.
Between his war and USD$400B deficit proposal and a soon-to-be-elected female Democrat, my country will be sorely broke and it's 'supercomputers' will consist of Pentium Celerons mated to ECS motherboards.

If you're an American and wish to have any financial solvency, for the foreseeable future, BUY GOLD.
Should have bought gold when the dollar was actually worth something :-)
Brought a smile to my face dude, Celery with ECS ;)