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OMB Memo M-21-32: Multi-Agency R&D Priorities for FY2023 (NIW Source)

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Executive Office of the President memo M-21-32 (Aug 2021) setting FY2023 research priorities - cite it to prove national importance of a STEM endeavor.

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About this document

A White House memorandum setting multi-agency research and development priorities for FY 2023 budget submissions. It lists government-wide focus areas such as pandemic readiness, climate change, critical technologies, equity, security, and STEM engagement, and asks agencies to align budgets and coordinate with one another. The memo emphasizes public access to federally funded R&D, domestic manufacturing, and support for underserved communities and institutions.

Key points

  • Directs agencies to reflect the listed priorities in FY 2023 budget submissions to OMB.
  • Calls for coordination among agencies with related activities and inclusion of coordination summaries in budget materials.
  • Pandemic priorities include vaccines, diagnostics, therapies, early warning, sequencing, variant tracking, and environmental surveillance.
  • Climate priorities cover climate science, clean-energy innovation, adaptation and resilience, nature-based solutions, and greenhouse-gas monitoring.
  • Names critical and emerging technologies such as AI, QIS, advanced communications, microelectronics, HPC, biotechnology, robotics, and space.
  • Emphasizes innovation for equity, including open science, community-based data hubs, telehealth, and improved diversity in the research workforce.
  • Security priorities focus on biosecurity, nuclear risk reduction, and cyber defense, including zero-trust and intrusion detection.
  • STEM guidance calls for measurable strategies on diversity, inclusion, equity, accessibility, and models of equitable STEM excellence.

What is inside

  1. Purpose and FY 2023 budget direction
  2. Multi-agency R&D priorities
  3. Pandemic readiness and prevention
  4. Tackling climate change
  5. Critical and emerging technologies
  6. National security and economic resilience
  7. STEM education and engagement guidance

When it helps

A policy exhibit showing the federal importance of the applicant's field or proposed endeavor in areas like climate, public health, AI, biotechnology, or STEM workforce development. It can support the broader national-importance context for an EB-2 NIW case or related evidence.

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