a look at past, present, and future federal r&d budgets matt hourihan june 9, 2014 for the asian...
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A Look at Past, Present, and Future Federal R&D Budgets
Matt HourihanJune 9, 2014for the Asian S&T Forum
AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Programhttp://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
For more info…
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