Invest in Essential Infrastructure: Congress should invest in our nation's aging research infrastructure—the large-scale research facilities, dedicated laboratory buildings and advanced scientific equipment that enable scientific breakthroughs and discoveries central to our global competitiveness and national security. Investing in our research infrastructure would immediately spur our economy, creating jobs across the construction and manufacturing sectors. Such investments would also enable new discoveries and innovations with associated economic benefits, paying dividends for decades to come.
Thank you for your leadership at this time of great national crisis. Your bipartisan efforts to swiftly pass three major bills in response to the health and economic challenges facing our country clearly demonstrate that we all stand united in the fight against COVID-19. This fight will be an ongoing challenge, and the federal government will need to continue making the investments necessary to jumpstart and strengthen our economy and prevent future pandemics.
We stand ready to work with you and your colleagues to increase our national commitment to the U.S. research enterprise and ensure the U.S. remains a global leader in science, technology and innovation.
Sincerely,
Maryam Cope Co-Chair Task Force on American Innovation (TFAI) Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)
| Kathleen N. Kingscott Co-Chair Task Force on American Innovation
IBM Research
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The Task Force on American Innovation (TFAI) is an alliance of America's leading companies and business associations, research university associations, and scientific societies that advocates on behalf of federal funding of basic research in the physical sciences engineering. | |
Lauren Brookmeyer President The Science Coalition Stony Brook University
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The Science Coalition is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of more than 50 of the nation's leading public and private research universities. It is dedicated to sustaining the federal government's investment in basic scientific research as a means to stimulate the economy, spur innovation and drive America's economic competitiveness. |
Tannaz Rasouli Executive Director Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research Association of American Medical Colleges
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The Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research is a coalition of patient and voluntary health groups, medical and scientific societies, academic and research organizations, and industry that support enhancing the federal investment in the biomedical, behavioral and population-based research conducted and supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). |
Katie Steen Co-Chair Agriculture and Food Research Initiative
Association of American Universities (AAU) | Nichelle Harriott Co-Chair Agriculture and Food Research Initiative
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
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The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Coalition is a coalition of scientific societies and science advocacy organizations who support full appropriations of the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grants program. | |
Julia Smith Co-Chair Coalition for Aerospace and Science University of Arizona | Ann Zulkosky Co-Chair Coalition for Aerospace and Science Lockheed Martin Corporation
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The Coalition for Aerospace and Science (CAS) is an alliance of industry, university, and science organizations united in our support for robust and sustainable federal funding for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). | |
Erin Heath Co-Chair Coalition for National
American Association for the Advancement of Science
| Miriam Quintal Co-Chair Coalition for National
Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC | Juliane Baron Co-Chair Coalition for National
Federation of Associations in
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The Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) is an alliance of professional organizations, universities, and businesses united in our support for sustained and robust funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF). | ||
John Latini Chair Coalition for National Security Research (CNSR) Penn State University
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The Coalition for National Security Research (CNSR) is a broad-based alliance of more than 100 members from industry, academia, scientific and professional organizations, and non-profits committed to advocating for a strong Defense Science and Technology enterprise. |
Chris Carter Co-Chair Energy Sciences Coalition (ESC) Lehigh University
| Leland Cogliani Co-Chair Energy Sciences Coalition (ESC) Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC
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The Energy Sciences Coalition (ESC) is a broad-based coalition of organizations representing scientists, engineers, and mathematicians in universities, industry, and national laboratories who are committed to supporting and advancing the scientific research programs of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science. | |
| Felice J. Levine Chair The Friends of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) American Educational Research Association
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| The Friends of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) supports the critical research, data, statistics and evaluation programs at IES. Our mission is to advance the objectives of IES and encourage federal investment to conduct the highest quality education research, data collection, evaluations and dissemination at IES. |
