R&D Policies, Budgets, and Economic Competitiveness: Twelfth Annual AAAS Colloquium on R&D Policy.

Trends and prospects for R&D in defense, energy, health, space, and other areas will be explored by leaders from industry, universities, agencies of the federal government, Congress, the White House, and the scientific and engineering communities. + Perspectives will be provided on topics such as budget deficit targets and their impacts on R&D, Japanese science and technology policy, U.S. economic competitiveness and the role of science and technology, "big science" programs and priorities in science, impacts of defense R&D budgets on the U.S. scientific-technical system.