Scientific research needs more precise federal funding, White House tech leader says

Federal funds should only be directed toward necessary scientific research, the head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy said on Monday.

During a speech and subsequent sitdown discussion at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., OSTP Director Michael Kratsios said that increasing federal investments in research and development in recent years have not resulted in wider scientific breakthroughs. 

“Spending more money on the wrong things is far worse than spending less money on the right things,” Kratsios said. “And I think we’re at a moment, a very important moment in time, where we need to be sort of resetting the way that we think about spending in a lot of these science agencies.”

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