R&D Funding in the New Administration and Congress Matt Hourihan and Josh Shiode June 21, 2017

UPDATED R&D in the FY 2018 Budget (budget authority in millions of dollars)   FY 2016 FY 2017 FY 2018 Change FY 17-18 Actual Estimate* Budget Amount Percent Total R&D 149,520 156,834 149,606 -7,229 -4.6% Basic Research 32,883 34,743 28,934 -5,808 -16.7% Applied Research 39,569 40,455 35,119 -5,336 -13.2% Development** 75,584 79,175 83,659 4,484 5.7% Facilities & Equipment 2,579 2,513 2,175 -337 -13.4% Defense R&D** 79,109 83,752 92,477 8,725 10.4% Nondefense R&D 70,411 73,082 57,129 -15,954 -21.8% *AAAS estimates based on the FY 2017 omnibus. Other years based on OMB data revised with agency R&D data. **Using old definition, continuing to count DOD 6.7 as R&D. 6/21/2017 | AAAS

One of the major questions: what to do about the budget caps? Actual Base Budget Budget Control Act Caps Billions of constant 2016 dollars ?? Current law Sequestration-level Caps Based on past budget resolutions, the Budget Control Act, and subsequent legislation. Adjusted for inflation using deflators from the FY17 budget request. Excludes war funding proposals. © 2016 AAAS

From Budget to Appropriations to 12 subcommittees Dept. of Education (Ed) Appropriations Committees Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) Energy & Water Development, and Related Agencies (E&W) Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) Others… NASA NSF DOE Total Discretionary Allocation Budget Committees Subcommittee allocations DOJ Commerce Army Corps of Engineers NIH FDA Dept. of Labor Here’s how this is supposed to work Focus here on competition - add DOJ, Commerce, other competing interests

At the end of the day, all sides must agree: House, Senate, and White House Congress ? Senate OSTP OMB House

AAAS R&D Budget Program QUESTIONS? AAAS R&D Budget Program http://www.aaas.org/program/rd-budget-and-policy-program Force for Science https://www.forceforscience.org/toolkit/