Slide title: FY 2009 Budget Request

Slide words: American Competitiveness Initiative

America COMPETES Act

2009 Budget Request

Slide image: Cover of United States National Science Foundation FY 2009 Budget Request to Congress

Cover image: Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Detector -- The ATLAS experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
Slide background image: Computer simulation showing turbulence
Image credit: CERN (cover photo); Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota (slide background)
Design by Adrian Apodaca, National Science Foundation