Dick Lugar: “Yes, these initiatives, while allowing for all entities to compete competitively for funding, will be directed and…”

“Yes, these initiatives, while allowing for all entities to compete competitively for funding, will be directed and coordinated programs that are designed to accomplish specific objectives. The request for proposals [RFP] that will be published by the USDA could be very specific in its requests. For example, one part of the RFP may request the development of 100,000 expressed sequence Tags on corn and another part may request a very high resolution physical map of corn.”