Federal Government Shutdown: Science and Technology Agency Information
When Fiscal Year 2014 started at 12:01 AM today, no appropriations bills had been passed providing funding for the continued operations of the federal government. There is no information about how the months-long impasse over the health care law and spending levels will be resolved. One report cited senior Republican congressional leaders who predicted the shutdown could last a week or more.
The following are links to selected federal science and technology agency contingency plans relating to the shutdown:
Department of Energy, including the National Nuclear Security Administration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(Note: the NASA site is unavailable; this link is to a non-federal site)
National Institutes of Health of the Department of Health and Human Services
National Institute of Standards and Technology of the Department of Commerce
US Geological Survey of the Department of the Interior
Other federal government agency contingency plans are available here .
