NOAA Budget Proposal Includes Boost for Satellite Programs

摘要

Although the prqposed 2013 budget for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad ministration (NOAA) includes an increase of only 3 percent in overall funding, spending on the agency's satellite initiatives would jump 8.7 percent. In a budget plan sent Feb. 13 to Congress, President Barack Obama is asking for $5.06 bil lion to fund NOAA's work in 2013.