Building Stronger Bridges Between Discovery, Innovation, and Prosperity May 10, 2021 | Sethuraman Panchanathan The Biden-Harris administration recently released its budget request to Congress for fiscal year 2022. The discretionary spending request includes $10.17 billion for the US National Science Foundation, which represents a 20% increase over the agency’s current budget. The President’s request affirms the importance of the agency’s role in advancing the frontiers of science and technological progress and NSF looks forward to working with Congress and other stakeholders to ensure that the United States remains at the forefront of science, engineering, and STEM workforce development. It is more important now than ever to catalyze innovation, at speed and scale, as the US is looking to the science and engineering community for solutions to some of society’s most pressing challenges. We need to rapidly scale our investments and build even stronger bridges between discovery, innovation, and commercialization in order to develop innovative ways to mitigate the pandemic, advance the industries of tomorrow, promote economic recovery, ensure racial equity, address climate resilience, and more.