Research and Development in the FY 2010 Federal Budget
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Transcript Research and Development in the FY 2010 Federal Budget
A Look at Past, Present,
and Future Federal R&D
Budgets
Matt Hourihan
June 9, 2014
for the Asian S&T Forum
AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program
http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd
U.S. R&D in Global Context
Compared with other OECD members, US is…
Near median in public R&D, top universities, and top
publications relative to GDP
Better on industry R&D and entrepreneurship metrics
Compared to OECD median, the federal R&D enterprise is…
Relatively more oriented towards national labs and business;
basic research; defense; and mission focus
WEF: top 10 in most innovation metrics, lower in education
The Fiscal Context for FY 2015
Sequester-level spending cuts partially rolled back (again)
Discretionary spending cap: $1.014 trillion
0.2% above FY14
$72 billion below original BCA cap
$19 billion above sequester levels
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
Advanced Manufacturing
COMPETES Agencies: $11 billion for R&D (+1% from FY14)
Research budget hit?
(not really)
Other Notes
Defense S&T cut (~5%)
But NNSA boosted (science campaigns, computing, reactors)
NIH: Translational science, Alzheimer's, mental health, big
data
NSF, DOE Science roughly flat
USDA “innovation institutes”
Appropriations So Far (continued)
Varying but positive numbers for USDA
Transportation:
R&D generally down
Several others in play this week
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