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Federal R&D: Overview, Update and Outlook

This article provides an overview of the current state of federal research and development (R&D) funding, updates on recent developments, and an outlook for the future. It discusses the decline in Department of Defense technology development activities, areas of (rough) agreement in funding priorities, areas of complete divergence, and the impact of fiscal politics on R&D funding. The article also explores the potential effects of the budget conference, sequester, and other political factors on R&D funding.

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Federal R&D: Overview, Update and Outlook

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  1. Federal R&D: Overview, Update and Outlook Matt Hourihan October 24, 2013 for the Council on Government Relations AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Programhttp://www.aaas.org/spp/rd

  2. *Keep in mind… • Department of Defense technology development activities have declined a little more than everything else

  3. Approps: What Have We Learned? • Everybody still mostly likes science and innovation funding… • Though to varying degrees • But fiscal politics trumps all

  4. Congress So Far • Areas of (rough) agreement: Defense, DHS, Veterans, USDA, STEM reorganization • Rough agreement in priorities but divergent funding anyway: NSF, some NASA, DOE Science, NIST • Areas of complete divergence: clean energy, environment • Unknown: NIH

  5. Agency Appropriations Notes • NSF: Many priorities embraced, except social sciences • NASA: Big divergence for science (except planetary) • DOE Science: divergence in BER, fusion, computing priorities • Environment R&D: main targets EPA, Forest Service • NIH: No House numbers yet; translational medicine?

  6. Does any of this matter? • Budget conference has until December • Sequester has already happened on the nondefense side • Moving parts and hardline politics: sequester, entitlements, tax reform • Might get a full-year CR with anomalies…or a mixed appropriations/CR result… • Was the shutdown backlash enough? Is “Hastert rule” done?

  7. Current Politics: The “Pong” Model? Cut nondefense spending! Raise revenues! Obviously, a very facile oversimplification…! The science and innovation budget

  8. For more info… mhouriha@aaas.org 202-326-6607 www.aaas.org/spp/rd/

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