AAAS R&D Funding Update August 21, 2002 (revised from 7/24 and 8/12 versions)-

President Bush Halts $5.1 Billion in FY 2002 Supplemental Spending;
R&D Funds Among Those Affected

PDF version of this document Go to: Table. R&D in the FY 2002 Emergency Supplemental Related Documents: R&D in the FY 2002 Budget in: AAAS Report XXVII: R&D FY 2003

(This analysis is part of a series of AAAS R&D Funding Updates on the FY 2003 congressional appropriations process. This analysis includes information on R&D in the FY 2002 supplemental appropriations bill, revised from earlier versions of this analysis. The complete series of AAAS R&D Funding Updates, including continually updated analyses of R&D by agency in FY 2003 appropriations, is available on the AAAS R&D Web Site (http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd) in the “FY 2003 R&D” or the “What’s New” sections.) Citing the need to rein in congressional spending, President Bush declared on August 13 that he would not release $5.1 billion in contingent emergency spending from the FY 2002 supplemental appropriations bill that he signed into law just ten days earlier. Language included in the bill made release of these funds conditional upon their designation by President Bush as emergency spending. President Bush’s decision to reject this designation is consistent with the position he staked out at the beginning of the FY 2002 supplemental appropriations process that such appropriations only be used to fund the continuing response to the terrorist attacks of September 11 and not unrelated congressional priorities. Unaffected by this action are the approximately $25 billion in non-contingent emergency spending called for in the supplemental that specifically targets national defense and homeland security.   As a consequence of President Bush’s decision, R&D spending in the supplemental appropriations bill falls to $128 million; or 0.5 percent of the total cost of the bill (see Table). Earlier AAAS analysis of the bill that included the $5.1 billion in contingent emergency spending placed R&D spending at $510 million. The vast majority of the remaining R&D funds will go to the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) accounts of the Department of Defense (DOD) and its component services. These funds will be used primarily to enhance the DOD’s C3I (Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence) capabilities as the services seek to improve their generation, sharing and use of information in military operations. The Agricultural Research Service gets a boost of $25 million to its Buildings and Facilities account while the recently created Transportation Security Administration – responsible for the nation’s aviation security – will receive $14 million for aviation security R&D and the testing and evaluation of radiation detection systems.   Normally a big winner in appropriations bills, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) suffers a loss in the supplemental, being the subject of a $30 million rescission of unspent Buildings and Facilities funds. The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration suffers a net loss, having $9.7 million in additional weapons security R&D offset by a $14.5 million rescission.   Among the agencies that lost funds because of the President’s cancellations of funds are the NNSA, which would have received an additional $104 million in R&D funds; the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an additional $28 million; the Department of Justice, $19 million; and DOD, an additional $213 million above the amounts still remaining in the bill.   (For more information on the FY 2002 R&D portfolio, see AAAS Report XXVII: R&D FY 2003). - August 21, 2002 AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program American Association for the Advancement of Science 1200 New York Ave, NW Washington, DC 20005 (202) 326-6607 science_policy@aaas.org http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd (new URL)

Table. R&D by Agency in the FY 2002 Supplemental Appropriations Bill
(budget authority in thousands of dollars)
	FY 2002
	Supplemental
Defense	124,000
Air Force	40,200
Army	8,200
Navy	9,000
Defense-Wide	67,000
Energy	-4,760
National Nuclear Security Administration	-4,760
Commerce	-276
National Institute of Standards and Technology	3,324
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	-3,600
Agriculture	25,000
Agricultural Research Service	25,000
Transportation	14,000
Transportation Security Administration	14,000
Health and Human Services	-30,000
NIH	-30,000
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Total R&D	128,364
Source: AAAS estimates of R&D in conference report of HR 4775
(FY 2002 supplemental appropriations bill).
Excludes funding provided in law but not released by the President.
All figures are net of rescissions.
Figures exclude non-R&D items or non-R&D components of programs.
All figures are rounded to the nearest million.
August 21, 2002 revised - AAAS