White House lays out longer term R&D priorities

A newly released White House memo lays out the Trump administration’s R&D budget priorities for the 2019 financial year. The document, issued on 17 August, says US leadership in science and technology is ‘critical’ to achieving the administration’s highest priorities of national security, economic growth and job creation. The memo identifies the White House’s four R&D funding priorities as military superiority, prosperity, energy dominance and health.