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The Future of Science and Technology in the States

TABLE. FEDERAL R&D IN LOUISIANA BY AGENCY AND PERFORMER

Fiscal Year 1997 (obligations in millions of dollars)

	HHS	NASA	USDA	DOD	NSF	Interior	Other	TOTAL
Performers:
Federal Labs	5	0	26	1	0	12	6	50
Industry	0	36	0	7	0	1	1	45
Universities/Colleges	57	5	8	22	15	2	17	126
FFRDCs	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other	3	0	0	0	3	0	1	8

Agency Total	65	41	34	31	18	15	25	230
(U.S. Total)	13,003	9,602	1,569	34,753	2,442	586	8,437	70,392
LA Share of U.S.	0.5%	0.4%	2.2%	0.1%	0.7%	2.6%	0.3%	0.3%

Source: National Science Foundation, Federal Funds for Research and Development Fiscal Years 1997, 1998, and 1999, 1999. Agency totals are for conduct of R&D and R&D facilities support. Alabama and U.S. total figures are based on obligations of the 10 largest federal R&D funding agencies, (above six plus Commerce, EPA, Interior, and DOT) which account for over 98 percent of all federally funded R&D.