Sec. 302. Sense of Congress on support for all fields of science and engineering
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It is the sense of Congress that in order to achieve its mission to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense … the National Science Foundation must continue to support unfettered, competitive, merit-reviewed basic research across all fields of science and engineering, including the social and behavioral sciences. It is further the sense of Congress that the Foundation’s process for selecting proposals for funding, which includes merit review based on both intellectual merit and broader impacts, remains the gold standard for the world, and that program officers and division directors at the Foundation play an essential role in this process.