Despite budgetary constraints, experts said Japan's space agency should persevere.
But the experts examining budgetary, workforce, and globalization issues related to science also suggested some sources of hope.
But experts examining budgetary, workforce and globalization issues related to science also suggested some sources of hope.
Professor Linda J. Bilmes, the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, is a leading expert on budgetary and public financial issues.
A major influence was Sir John Hicks, Professor of Political Economy and expert on budgetary reform and the trade cycle, and his wife Ursula, an authority on public finance.
"That said, there are certain risks with falling off the two-war posture," said Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr., a military expert at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
"The services are going to be told 'no' a lot more often," said Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr., a military expert at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a research group.
"Unless you are suppressing insurgents the way the Romans did — creating a desert and calling it peace — it typically can take the better part of a decade or more," said Andrew Krepinevich, a military expert at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
Andrew H. Krepinevich Jr., a military expert at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said that it was hard to tell how much Mr. Gates was reducing spending over all because he was increasing spending in unspecified amounts in some areas and had not put a net dollar amount on his entire proposal.
"I think it'll be an uphill battle to try to get Congress to go along with appropriating more for defense" after this year, said Todd Harrison, a military budget expert at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington policy analysis organization.
