When Norman Augustine, the former chairman of Lockheed Martin Corp, oversaw the 10‐week effort to put together the US National Academy of Sciences' “Gathering Storm” report, he was worried that the broad scope of the report's four recommendations and the high cost of implementing them could doom the study to gather dust like so many reports before it. The report, which calls for spending several billion dollars to rejuvenate US science and research, “is sailing into a headwind,” Augustine said in October (see PHYSICSTODAY, December 2005, page 25).