President Bill Clinton advocated nanotechnology development. In a 21 January 2000 speech.
President George W. Bush further increased funding for nanotechnology. On December 3, 2003 Bush signed into law the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act
The NNI's budget supplement proposed by the Obama administration for Fiscal Year 2015 provides
https://legcounsel.house.gov/Comps/21st%20Century%20Nanotechnology%20Research%20And%20Development%20Act.pdf
nology, including, but not limited to—
(1) self-replicating nanoscale machines or devices;
(2) the release of such machines in natural environments; (3) encryption;
(4) the development of defensive technologies;
(5) the use of nanotechnology in the enhancement of
human intelligence; and
(6) the use of nanotechnology in developing artificial intel-
ligence.
(d) REPORT.