Totally. In most governments around the world, you typically have a Ministry of Technology or Science or an agency that does science or technology. The US Government spreads out all of our tech and science work across all of our agencies. So the National Science foundation invests in basic research. The Commerce Department has an agency called NIST which does standards. (04:51–04:57)
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Asserts that the U.S. does not have a centralized Ministry of Technology or Science.
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