Congressional Action on R&D in the FY 2001 Budget

Congressional Action on R&D in the FY 2001 Budget - Tables A and B

Table A. Historical Table: Federal R&D by Agency, FY 1989-2001
in millions of constant FY 2000 dollars

	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000**	2001***
(in millions of constant FY 2000 dollars)
DOD	49,116	46,448	44,012	43,677	43,804	39,139	38,156	37,894	38,776	38,627	39,469	39,282	41,024
NASA	7,536	8,723	9,609	9,878	9,939	10,367	10,210	9,989	9,738	10,025	9,862	9,777	10,096
DOE	7,964	8,571	8,681	9,403	8,394	7,463	6,925	6,643	6,474	6,530	7,070	7,117	7,837
NIH *	9,613	9,944	10,619	11,127	11,152	11,544	11,617	12,099	12,722	13,479	15,220	17,102	19,212
NSF	2,243	2,120	2,240	2,280	2,270	2,472	2,586	2,532	2,525	2,571	2,710	2,863	3,177
USDA	1,450	1,500	1,645	1,756	1,654	1,685	1,605	1,575	1,621	1,605	1,670	1,763	1,915
Interior	611	651	733	743	732	780	721	605	616	551	506	573	585
DOT	415	434	486	718	700	706	719	636	637	606	616	606	687
EPA	506	520	543	569	560	648	598	511	620	655	679	647	672
Commerce	543	555	635	674	894	1,126	1,207	1,023	1,004	1,122	1,100	1,073	1,089
All Other *	1,846	2,032	2,113	2,346	2,131	2,408	2,238	1,900	2,255	2,310	2,467	2,532	2,812
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Total R&D	81,843	81,499	81,316	83,172	82,230	78,338	76,581	75,407	76,987	78,080	81,370	83,334	89,107

Defense R&D	52,936	50,262	47,757	47,668	47,485	42,214	40,837	40,734	41,701	41,714	42,715	42,583	44,649
Nondef. R&D	28,906	31,237	33,559	35,504	34,745	36,125	35,744	34,672	35,286	36,367	38,655	40,751	44,458

Basic Res.	13,518	13,834	14,676	14,964	15,159	15,093	14,866	15,294	15,579	15,960	17,693	18,965	20,791

Source: AAAS Reports VII through XXV, based on OMB and agency R&D budget data.
Constant dollar conversions based on OMB's GDP deflators from the FY 2001 budget.
* Between FY 1991 and 1992, R&D from ADAMHA (HHS) transferred to NIH. ADAMHA R&D included in NIH totals for all years.
** - Latest estimate for FY 2000. The full version of this table ('76-'01) is available on the World Wide Web at www.aaas.org/spp/R&D/.

Table B. Total U.S. R&D, 1998-2000
(expenditures in millions of dollars)

(calendar years)	1998	1999	2000	% Change	% Share of
	Actual	Preliminary	Preliminary	1999-2000	Total ('00)
U.S. R&D by funding source:

Federal Government	66,522	69,494	71,162	2.4%	26.9%
Industry	147,829	162,280	178,959	10.3%	67.7%
Universities and Colleges	5,166	5,534	5,951	7.5%	2.3%
Nonprofits	5,006	5,376	5,770	7.3%	2.2%
Nonfederal Government	1,993	2,143	2,322	8.4%	0.9%
	____	____	____
Total U.S. R&D	226,515	244,828	264,165	7.9%	100.0%

U.S. R&D by performer:

Federal Government	17,403	18,114	17,777	-1.9%	6.7%
Industry	167,102	182,017	199,170	9.4%	75.4%
Universities and Colleges	26,547	28,255	30,090	6.5%	11.4%
FFRDCs *	8,264	8,671	8,954	3.3%	3.4%
Nonprofits	7,198	7,772	8,174	5.2%	3.1%
	____	____	____
Total U.S. R&D	226,515	244,828	264,165	7.9%	100.0%

U.S. R&D by character of work:

Basic Research	40,892	42,515	45,471	7.0%	17.2%
- (from federal sources)	20,289	21,361	*22,441*	5.1%	8.5%
- (from industry sources)	13,366	13,436	*14,777*	10.0%	5.6%
Applied Research	45,866	52,269	56,704	8.5%	21.5%
Development	139,757	150,043	161,990	8.0%	61.3%
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Total U.S. R&D	226,515	244,828	264,165	7.9%	100.0%

U.S. GDP (billions** of dollars)	8,760	9,255	9,708	4.9%

U.S. R&D / GDP	2.59%	2.65%	2.72%

Source: National Science Foundation, National Patterns of R&D Resources, 2000.
The complete data are available at http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/stats.htm.
* Federally Funded Research and Development Centers.
** Gross Domestic Product. These data are based on performer surveys of expenditures for calendar years, and thus differ from data presented elsewhere in this report (agency budget authority data by fiscal year). These data also exclude R&D facilities.