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2015 Public Policy Colloquium

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Christine Cassel, National Quality Forum

, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Science writer: Robert Saunders, Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, National Quality Forum *DenotesPCASTmember President’s Council of Advisors on Science and TechnologySystems engineering in health care:What is it and why is it important? •  Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary approach to analyze, design, manage, and measure a complex system with efforts to improve its efficiency, productivity, quality, safety, and other factors. •  Systems engineering provides a suite of tools for improvement, which have been successfully used in

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2015 Public Policy Colloquium

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Mike Molnar, NIST

Challenge:USlosingleadership inAdvancedProducts U.S. Trade Balance for Advanced Technology Products +40 +20 USTradeBalance 0AdvancedTechnology Products ($Billion) -20 -40 -60 -80 -100 5Productsinventedhere,nowmadeelsewhere-notdrivenbylaborcost 6 PCAST:TheindependentbasisofNNMI President’sCouncilofAdvisorsonScienceandTechnology

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2015 Public Policy Colloquium

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Matt Hourihan, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

A Quick Look at theFY16 R&D BudgetMatt HourihanFebruary 10, 2015for the American Society for Engineering EducationPublic Policy ColloquiumAAAS R&D Budget and Policy Programhttp://www.aaas.org/program/rd-budget-and-policy-program LimitsonDiscretionarySpendingSinceFY2010 billionsofconstant2015dollars $1,200 $1,150 $1,100 $1,050 $1,000 $950 $900 BaseDiscretionaryBudgetAuthorityBasedonpastbudgetresolutions,theBudgetControlAct,andsubsequentlegislation.Adjustedforinflationusingdeflators fromtheFY16budgetrequest.©AAAS2015 LimitsonDiscretionarySpendingSinceFY2010