Transcript Research and Development in the FY 2010 Federal Budget

Federal R&D in FY
2015: Context,
Overview, Outlook
Matt Hourihan
June 12, 2014
for the Council on Government Relations
AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program
http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd
The Fiscal Context for FY 2015
 Reminder: Budget Control Act’s two baselines
 “pre-sequester” and “post-sequester”
 Congress keeps rolling the cuts back (partially)
 FY14: 50% reduction, FY15: 20% reduction
 Discretionary spending cap: $1.014 trillion
 0.2% above FY14
 FY 2016 and beyond – back to sequester levels
Administration R&D Priorities
 Department of Energy: NNSA, renewables and efficiency, ARPA-E
 Neuroscience
 NASA: industry partnerships
 Transportation: highways and high-performance rail
 Extramural ag research (“innovation institutes”)
 Advanced Manufacturing
 COMPETES Agencies: $11 billion for R&D (+1% from FY14)
 Research budget hit?
 (not really)
Other Notes
 NIH: Translational science, Alzheimer's, mental health, big data
 Federal R&D drops to 0.75% of GDP (post WWII low)
 Opportunity, Growth and Security Initiative: Extra funding
Appropriations So Far
 Bills in play have covered funding for NSF, NASA, NOAA, USDA,
Transportation, DOE, Defense, NIH, DHS
 A typically mixed bag, but perhaps more positive than
negative
 Sequestration recovery sustained/continued
Appropriations So Far (continued)
 Senate: NIH gets a boost
 House: DOE offices flat or cut
 House: DHS, Defense science boosted above request
 Varying numbers for USDA
 Transportation: mostly “no thanks”
For more info…
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