I think we're currently seeing the result of a sustained lack of public education about these agencies. The media is partially to blame as they hype private companies for the science government agencies make possible but somewhere in the oughts the government really stopped educating the public about what it is they do. We see evidence of this with the NOAA and NWS cuts. Average citizens just don't know what research is being done and how it affects them. I'd like to see some clever PR campaigns for each of these like the FB accounts for the NPS but more broadly accessible.