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The Future of Science and Technology in the States

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

Fiscal Year 1997 (obligations in millions of dollars)

	DOD	NASA	USDA	HHS	DOC	NSF	Other	TOTAL
Performers:
Federal Labs	79	45	39	0	8	0	5	176
Industry	35	63	0	0	1	0	0	99
Universities/Colleges	7	2	16	13	0	6	2	45
FFRDCs	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other	1	3	1	1	1	0	1	8

Agency Total	121	113	56	15	9	6	8	329
(U.S. Total)	34,753	9,602	1,569	13,003	1,046	2,442	7,977	70,392
MS Share of U.S.	0.3%	1.2%	3.6%	0.1%	0.9%	0.2%	0.1%	0.5%

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.