About this event
The National Science Board typically meets four times a year. These meetings include sessions that are open to the public. Agendas are typically posted one week before the meetings. To attend in-person, please email your name as it appears on your photo ID, along with your affiliation, at least 24 hours in advance to nationalsciencebrd@nsf.gov. NSB continues to livestream all open meeting sessions on its YouTube channel.
National Science Board Meeting
Feb 21 – 22, 2024
YouTube Link Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xabZle0pBw
YouTube Link Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7129GfU61Y
February 21, 2024
Plenary Open
10:00 – 11:45 AM
- NSB Chair’s Opening Remarks
- NSF Director’s Opening Remarks
- NSF’s Role in the Future of Artificial Intelligence
- Tess DeBlanc-Knowles NSF Staff Associate for Technology Policy & Strategy, TIP/OAD
- Michael Littman, Division Director, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems
Lunch Break
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Plenary Open
12:45 PM - 2:30 PM
- Approval of November Open Meeting Minutes
- Committee Reports
- Committee on External Engagement
- Committee on National Science and Engineering Policy
- Discussion of draft policy messages and Indicators 2024 rollout
- Vote on “Talent is the Treasure” policy message
- Overview of the future of Indicators
- Discussion of draft policy messages and Indicators 2024 rollout
- Working Group Reports
- National Security Team, Working Group
- Talent Development Team, Working Group
- NSF Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Charles Barber, DEIA Program Overview and Discussion
Break
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Plenary Open
2:45 - 3:40 PM
- NSF SAHPR Update
Closed Plenary
3:30 - 3:45 PM
- NSF SAHPR Update
Closed Committee Meeting
3:45 - 4:45 PM
- Committee on Strategy
- FY25 Budget Update
End of Meeting Day 1
February 22, 2024
Open Plenary
9:00 - 9:20 AM
- NSB Chair’s Welcome/Remarks
- Committee Reports
- NSB-NSF Commission on Merit Review
Open Committee Meeting
9:20 - 10:05 AM
- Committee on A&F
- Antarctic Support Contract Discussion
Plenary Closed
10:05 - 10:35 AM
- NSB Chair’s Remarks
- Approval of November 2023 Closed Minutes
- NSF Director’s Remarks Agency Operating Status
- Personnel updates
Break
10:35 - 10:45 AM
Closed Plenary
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
- • Committee Reports
- Committee on Awards and Facilities
- US Extremely Large Telescopes, Discussion and Vote
- National Solar Observatory, Discussion
- Joint Committees on Strategy and Awards and Facilities meeting
- Committee on Strategy
- NSF’s FY 2025 Annual Performance Plan and FY 2023 Annual Performance Report
- Committee on Oversight
- Discussion of NSF’s Pilot programs to include Broader Impacts experts on Committees of Visitors and improve reviewer training
- NSB-NSF Commission on Merit Review
- Committee on Awards and Facilities
Vote to Enter EPC
12:15 PM
Lunch Break
12:15 – 1:35 PM
Executive Plenary Closed
12:45 – 1:35 PM
- NSB Chair's Opening Remarks
- Approval of November 2023 Executive Plenary Closed Meeting Minutes
- NSB Director’s Remarks
- Organizational updates
- • NSB Chair’s Closing Remarks
End of Meeting Day 2