Modernizing the Infrastructure of the NSF Federal Funds Survey

国家研究理事会国家统计委员会提议召集一个专家小组，审查联邦研究和开发资金的使用和数据收集，并根据对使用情况的评估，为该方案提出未来的方向。专家小组将把国家科学基金S科学资源统计司联邦研究与发展基金调查的科学分类结构领域包括在这次审查中。该小组将与提供联邦基金数据的联邦机构的高级官员和关键数据用户进行接触，并向互补和相互竞争的数据源的提供者征求建议。该小组将审查过去对联邦基金数据的研究，确定共同要求，并考虑可能有助于收集的新数据元素和字段。S小组的调查将通过举办研讨会来进行。这项研究的主要成果将是一份载有关于调查基础设施现代化建议的最后报告。

The Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council proposesto convene an expert panel to review the uses and collection of data on Federal funds for research and development, and recommend future directions for the program based on an assessment of the uses. The expert panel will include the fields of science classification structure underlying the National Science Foundation?s Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) Survey of Federal Funds for Research and Development in this review. The panel will reach out to senior officials of federal agencies that provide the federal funds data and key data users, as well as solicit advice from providers of complementary and competing data sources. The panel will review past studies on Federal funds data, identify common requirements and consider new data elements and fields that could be useful to collect. The panel?s investigation will be facilitated by the conduct of a workshop. A final report with recommendations on modernizing the infrastructure of the survey will be the primary product of the study.