• This budget shows our firm commitment to defense basic science--the seed corn on which our technology programs depend. We have maintained funding in defense basic science at about the same levels for the last three years--about $1.2 billion--despite reductions elsewhere.

• We are giving priority to programs that improve our warfighting capabilities, such as information technology and advanced modeling and simulation that are changing the battlefield by giving individual soldiers, sailors, and airmen the benefit of our global information leadership; to programs that address affordability, such as manufacturing and production technologies; and to technologies for new missions, such as counter-proliferation, that are growing in importance.

• Many of the technologies we need for advanced military capabilities are available in the commercial sector, and in some cases they are more advanced and cost less. Through increased funding for partnerships with industry such as the Technology Reinvestment Program, we are breaking down the barriers between the defense and commercial industrial sectors so that we have access to the best of both for our military applications. This program will increase by $57 million in FY96 to $500 million.

• We can use American leadership in international science and technology cooperation to address global issues such as proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, excessive population pressure, food scarcity, environmental degradation, deteriorating health conditions. These conditions are incompatible with the promotion of stability, economic growth, and the spread of democracy.

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