1. Jack Fellows UCAR Vice President jfellows@ucar.edu Agenda Dimensions of the Budget Players How this really works Interesting Issues I dealt with while in the government How you can be involved.

2. Background 1983 PhD in Civil Engineering – parametrizing continental scale watershed models with remotely sensed data. 1983-84 AGU Congressional Science Fellow 1984-1997 OMB Science and Space Branch Chief 1997- present: UCAR Vice President

3. 2010 Budget Overview

4. Executive Office of the President (The Players) White House Office: Rahm Emanuel White House Office Council of Economic Advisers: Christina Romer Council of Economic Advisers Office of Management and Budget: Peter Orszag Office of Management and Budget Domestic Policy Council: Melody Barnes Domestic Policy Council National Economic Council: Lawrence Summers National Economic Council National Security Council: James Jones National Security Council Council on Environmental Quality: Nancy Sutley Council on Environmental Quality Office of Science and Technology Policy: John Holdren Office of Science and Technology Policy President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board: Paul Volcker President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board President's Intelligence Advisory Board: Chuck Hagel and David Boren President's Intelligence Advisory Board Office of National AIDS Policy: Jeff Crowley Office of National AIDS Policy Office of National Drug Control Policy: Gil Kerlikowske Office of National Drug Control Policy Office of the Trade Representative: Ron Kirk Office of the Trade Representative Office of Administration: Brad Kiley Office of Administration White House Military Office: Vacant White House Military Office

5. Office of Management and Budget (Keeper of the President’s Policy)

6. OSTP-OMB R&D Guidance (Started in 1991)

7. R&D Budget Bush SrClintonBush Jr Obama

8. Basic Research ClintonBush Jr Obama

9. R&D Doubling Initiatives Bush JrObama

10. Interesting Issues (Why did I stay?) Learning about incoming Administration policies Space Shuttle and Space Station Doubling of the NSF Budget US Global Change Research Program Political punishments

11. How can you be involved? Congressional Science Fellowship – the ultimate civics lesson Professional Societies – sign up for action alerts or Congressional Visits Day Advocacy Activities

12. Transition Document www.ucar.edu/td Advice to the New Administration and Congress: Actions to Make our Nation Resilient to Severe Weather and Climate Change Nine partners – University Corporation for Atmospheric Research – Weather Coalition – American Meteorological Society – American Geophysical Union – Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science – National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges – Consortium for Ocean Leadership – Alliance for Earth Observations – Reinsurance Association of America Recommendations: – Observations. – Computing. – Research and Modeling. – Societal Relevance. – Leadership and Management. – Budget Resources: +$9B over the next five years based on community documents. Community Nominations Collected Science is not Done!

13. Reorganizing the Federal climate enterprise in the NSTC and Earth Observations Committee