Sec. 302. Findings and sense of Congress on support for all fields of science and engineering
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Congress finds that the Foundation's investments in social, behavioral, and economic research have addressed challenges, including— in medicine, matching organ donors to patients, leading to a dramatic growth in paired kidney transplants; in policing, implementing predictive models that help to yield significant reductions in crime; in resource allocation, developing the theories underlying the Federal Communications Commission spectrum auction, which has generated over $60,000,000,000 in revenue; in disaster preparation and recovery, identifying barriers to effective disaster evacuation strategies; in national defense, assisting United States troops in cross-cultural communication and in identifying threats; and in areas such as economics, education, cybersecurity, transportation, and national defense, supporting informed decisionmaking in foreign and domestic policy.
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 Foundation must continue to support unfettered, competitive, merit-reviewed basic research across all fields of science and engineering, including the social, behavioral, and economic sciences.