1. 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

10. 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

11. 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

16. 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)

17. 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”

19. Appropriations So Far (continued) Varying but positive numbers for USDA Transportation: R&D generally down Several others in play this week

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