据美国国家科学院、国家工程科学院和医学研究所的一个联合委员会本周发表的一份报告指出,美国应重视发展一种“跨机构的观点”以统一和指导美国政府的科研开支。委员会认为,虽然各个机构内的科研经费预算制定程序工作良好,但还需要做更大的努力来保证美国的科学技术的总经费能与该国的需求和优先领域相配合。今年夏天国会在每年的年度预算工作结束后,要求该委员检查现行预算程序的工作。情况,国会担心协调分配于30多个部门和机构的600亿美元的联邦科技预算太过麻烦而杂乱。 According to a report this week issued by a joint committee of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine, the United States should attach importance to the development of an “inter-agency perspective” to unify and direct the U.S. government's research expenditures. The Committee believes that while the budgetary process for research funding within agencies is working well, much more needs to be done to ensure that the total United States science and technology funding can be matched to the country's needs and priorities. After the annual annual budget work has ended in the summer of this year, Congress has asked the commissioners to inspect the current budget process. In the past, Congress feared that the 60 billion U.S. federal budget allocated to more than 30 departments and agencies would be too troublesome and messy.