The Federal R&D Budget: Past, Present and Future

Matt HourihanMarch 5, 2014for the University of North Carolina Federal Relations Council

AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Programhttp://www.aaas.org/spp/rd

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Federal Spending as a Percent of GDP, 1962 - 2018

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…

mhouriha@aaas.org

202-326-6607

www.aaas.org/spp/rd/