Gary Peters

We may not have a lot of advance notice. Our prediction capabilities for space weather are not as advanced as they should be.

This is certainly a very important topic, especially given the changes we are seeing in our society in terms of being interconnected in ways that are difficult to fathom.

We're playing football with baseball rules.

I would like to take a look at the ecosystem that we talked about earlier, and how we fully develop this broad ecosystem that is not just academia, not just university research, but also industry, Federal Government, all of these partners…

But, one statistic that I saw that is--then I want to raise a question as to why this is the case--there's a study that showed that 40 percent of students who begin college as STEM majors actually complete the degree.

I am optimistic we'll be home free: all else to achieve my vision of 'computing for all' will follow.

So, we need to get through that hurdle. That's something we can do immediately.

One of the stumbling blocks we face now, especially in computer science, but, I think, in all STEM disciplines, is not having enough teachers who are trained to teach the discipline.

We have to continue to fund this, I believe across the board.

We need to do a much better job of, certainly, recognition of competition, but also there needs to be some sort of collaboration there to work together and to move forward.

I appreciate your leadership on this and certainly have enjoyed the questions--the last couple of questions, in particular, and talking about agencies working together.

Well, that leads to the point that we should move away from having an emphasis on a special application or a specific application for the research, and have it wide open.

Basic R&D is the seed corn of our economy, and the innovation that it generates helps build new industries, increase productivity, and enhance American competitiveness.

Led by Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray, the Senate HELP Committee recently took steps to help address that problem.

We have to reduce administrative burdens and other unnecessary drains on research dollars.

We have to invest in all areas of basic research.

This committee is taking a first and very important step in making science bipartisan again, which is really boosting the morale of the scientific community.

The United States is quickly losing ground in the global marketplace.

As much as half of the economic growth in the United States over the last 50 years is attributable to advances in science and technology.

The impacts of the space program reached beyond inspiration to growing the economy and improving the security of our Nation.

I would go even further, that it is a fundamental role, that all of the other stuff does not happen without the government investment in basic curiosity research.

During the roundtables that we held with Senator Gardner and I, we certainly heard an awful lot about the need for basic research and how that is the fundamental aspect of innovation in this country.

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