Yes! In the US particle physics community, they came up with a solution to this. Every ten years, the field as a whole gets together and sets an agenda for the field that self-prioritizes funding, before making a case to the national funding agencies and Congress. The idea is that if the high energy folks are computing with the neutrino folks, and things get nasty to the point where people on each side are saying stuff like "neutrinos suck, here's why you shouldn't fund them and fund us instead!"... All the suits are going to hear is "physics sucks here's a bunch of reasons we shouldn't fund them".

The process/report is called P5 (particle physics projects prioritization panel), and it's actually happening right now to form the coming decadal report.