The US plans to train five additional 500-man NSF battalions.

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Monday saw the publication of this essay in Scientific American by Robert Fortner, highlighting a new NSF report on the continuing decline of US Science productivity.

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The Initiative, a 10-year plan to provide greater work-related flexibility to women and men in research careers, is run by the National Science Foundation (NSF), which is the leading source of Federal grants for many fields that are crucial to US technology development and job creation, including computer science, mathematics, and the social sciences.

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