NRA official calls for trained, armed school staff Announcing his "brain initiative," President Obama said in his proposed 2014 budget he will call for investing $100 million in a project to speed up the development and application of technologies that will help researchers create dynamic brain imaging. "As humans we can identify galaxies light years away, we can study particles smaller than an atom, but we still haven't unlocked the mystery of the three pounds of matter sitting between our ears," he said.