{"id":1271,"date":"2012-01-07T15:31:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T15:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/nytimescom-a-shrinking-military-budget-may-take\/"},"modified":"2012-01-07T15:31:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T15:31:50","slug":"nytimescom-a-shrinking-military-budget-may-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/nytimescom-a-shrinking-military-budget-may-take\/","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes.com &#8211; A Shrinking Military Budget May Take Neighbors With It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/07\/us\/a-hidden-cost-of-military-cuts-could-be-invention-and-its-industries.html'>NYTimes.com &#8211; A Shrinking Military Budget May Take Neighbors With It<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<ul>\n<li>And as the Pentagon confronts the prospect of cutting its budget by about 10 percent over the next decade<\/li>\n<li>Spending less on military research, they say, could reduce the economy\u2019s long-term growth. <\/li>\n<li>The Pentagon spends about 12 percent of its budget in that area, about  $81.4 billion during the most recent fiscal year. That is roughly 55  percent of all federal spending on research and development. <\/li>\n<li>research spending has accounted for a roughly similar share \u2014 between 9 and 13 percent \u2014 of the overall [Pentagon] budget<\/li>\n<li>the Defense Department had been more successful than other federal  agencies\u00a0because it is the main user of the innovations that it  finances. <\/li>\n<li>The Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health, which  also finance large volumes of research, are not major consumers of  energy or healthcare<\/li>\n<li>Another factor is the Pentagon\u2019s relative insulation from politics,  which has allowed it to sustain a long-term research agenda in  controversial areas. No matter which party is in power, the Pentagon has  continued to invest in clean-energy technology, for example, in an  effort to find ways to reduce one of its largest budget items, energy  costs. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On the flip side, some scientists say the military\u2019s record of research success is unlikely to continue. <\/li>\n<li>The government is no longer the dominant source of spending on research  and development.<\/li>\n<li>The Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that private  spending on research and development began to exceed government spending  in 1990; other studies put the crossing point a few years earlier.<\/li>\n<li>By  2007, the private sector was spending about $2 on research for every  federal dollar. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes.com &#8211; A Shrinking Military Budget May Take Neighbors With It And as the Pentagon confronts the prospect of cutting its budget by about 10 percent over the next decade Spending less on military research, they say, could reduce the economy\u2019s long-term growth. The Pentagon spends about 12 percent of its budget in that area, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}