Transcript Research and Development in the FY 2010 Federal Budget

The Federal R&D
Budget: Past, Present
and Future
Matt Hourihan
March 5, 2014
for the University of North Carolina Federal Relations
Council
AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program
http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd
Federal Spending as a Percent of GDP, 1962 - 2018
30%
25%
Defense
Discretionary
20%
Nondefense
Discretionary
15%
Mandatory
10%
Net Interest
5%
0%
Source: Budget of the U.S. Government FY 2014.
© 2013 AAAS
Items of Note: Base Budget
 DOD S&T cut (but not DARPA)
 NIH: BRAIN Initiative to double; another ARPA?
 NCATS, NINDS, NIMH, largest relative increases
 USDA: Extramural research boost, but not intramural
 Three new “innovation institutes”
 NASA Science, Orion/SLS, Aero cut; Space Technology, some
exploration activities boosted
 DOE Science: cuts to fusion, high-energy physics, others
increased
 DOE renewables, efficiency, ARPA-E boosted
 NSF: Social sciences boosted?
 Interagency initiatives flat or declining
Items of Note: OGSI
 “Opportunity, Growth and Security Initiative”
 $56 billion in additional funding BEYOND the base budget
 Split between defense and nondefense
 NIH: $970 million (BRAIN, “DARPA NIH”, grants)
 NSF: $552 million
 NASA: $886 million (spread across agency)
 NIST: Manufacturing institutes
 DOE: cleantech funding – at least $600 million?
 DOD: “$2.1 billion for R&D”
 USDA: ~$300 million, Athens poultry lab, competitive grants
Looking ahead…
 Congress already has FY15 number agreed
 Senate: no budget resolution
 Opportunity Initiative reception? Does it matter for science?
 Debt ceiling suspended
 COMPETES?
For more info…
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