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Federal R&D in FY 2017. Matt Hourihan October 3, 2016 For the ASU DARPA Young Faculty Awardees AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program http://www.aaas.org/program/rd-budget-and-policy-program. The Federal Budget is Kind Of a Big Deal.
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Federal R&D in FY 2017 Matt Hourihan October 3, 2016 For the ASU DARPA Young Faculty Awardees AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Programhttp://www.aaas.org/program/rd-budget-and-policy-program
The Federal Budget is Kind Of a Big Deal • “Politics is who gets what, when, and how.” - Harold Lasswell • “Budgeting is about values, and it’s about choices.” – Rep. Rosa DeLauro • Every dollar in the budget has its claimants! • Negotiation between competing interests (and their proxies) in a decentralized system • Major impact for R&D and innovation: most basic research, and most university research, is federally funded
From Budget to Appropriations Committees • Budget Resolution limits Approps Committees Subcommittees [302(b) allocations] • These caps remain in place all the way to floor, but can be revised as needed • Twelve Appropriations Subcommittees • Nine subcommittees responsible for at least $1 billion of R&D • Approps led by “Cardinals” • Committee Chairs: Rep. Hal Rogers (KY), Sen. Thad Cochran (MS) • Ranking Members: Rep. Nita Lowey (NY), Sen. Barbara Mikulski (MD) • Appropriators will often have their own priorities • “There are three parties: Democrats, Republicans, and appropriators” • “President proposes, Congress disposes”
Defense Bill • Over $500 billion • Tradeoffs: balancing force modernization, readiness, personnel costs, near-term versus long-term RDT&E (and medical research) • Offset Strategy • What to do about war funding?
Agency Highlights: NIH • $33.1 billion program level (+$825 million, +2.6%) • OR • $31.3 billion program level (-$1 billion, -3.1%) • Of the $1.825 billion in mandatory spending: • $825 million for cancer research, BRAIN Initiative, Precision Medicine • Remaining $1 billion to keep all other ICs flat • 17.5% success rate in FY17
Labor, HHS, Education • >$150 billion • Deep divisions – especially Obamacare • Usually one of the hardest to pass, thus usually one of the last out of the gate • Everybody likes NIH lately • Especially Alzheimer’s research • Cancer moonshot? • Success rates?
Commerce, Justice, Science • ~$55 billion • Tradeoffs: Balancing Depts. of Justice and Commerce (including NOAA and NIST), NASA, NSF • Among science programs, NASA’s star is somewhat ascendant • NSF: Modest year all around • Social and geo science funding? Facilities?
Looking Ahead • Good approps progress but regular order broke down, because of course it did • CR through Dec. 9 • Included Zika funding • And full-year MilCon • Next: omnibus (?) negotiations, to lead to legislation in late fall • March: Debt ceiling. Ugh. • FY 2018: Sequester-level spending returns, maybe
For more info… mhouriha@aaas.org 202-326-6607 http://www.aaas.org/program/rd-budget-and-policy-program