More funding is good. Although of the 625m at the nat labs contractors like Battelle will take ~300m or more. This type of feast/famine short term topical fund

More funding is good. Although of the 625m at the nat labs contractors like Battelle will take ~300m or more. This type of feast/famine short term topical funding is usually a disaster. Investigators will pursue the money, trying to shoehorn whatever they're previous pet project was, then the funding will dry up and the main net effect will be some shallow projects. Renewable grants are the blood of science. A single center openly funding as many investigators as possible for 10 years would be much more effective.