Below you will find the complete contents of AAAS Report XXXIX: Research and Development FY 2015, the latest edition in a long-running annual series of reports reviewing R&D funding proposals in the President's budget. The report is a collective product of the Intersociety Working Group, composed of more than 30 leading science societies and other non-governmental organizations in the science and innovation policy space.
The report was released in April 2014. All individual chapters below are downloadable as PDFs. Printed copies can be ordered via the PayPal button below.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Front Matter, Table of Contents and Preface
PART I: OVERVIEW
Chapter 1: Federal R&D in the FY 2015 Budget: An Introduction
Matt Hourihan, AAAS
Chapter 2: Historical Trends in Federal R&D
Matt Hourihan, AAAS
Chapter 3: Political and Policy Context for the FY 2015 Budget
Joanne Padrón Carney, AAAS
Chapter 4: Education and Workforce Development in the FY 2015 Budget
Christine Grant, Yolanda L. Comedy, and Shirley M. Malcom, AAAS
PART II: AGENCY R&D BUDGETS
Chapter 5: Department of Defense
Travis Doom, CSPO
Chapter 6: National Science Foundation
Amy Scott and Tobin Smith, AAU
Chapter 7: National Institutes of Health
Erin Heath, AAAS
Chapter 8: Department of Energy
Mark T. Elsesser and Michael S. Lubell, APS
Chapter 9: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Steve Howell, AIAA
Chapter 10: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Elizabeth Allred, Ian L. Maw, and Eddie G. Gouge, APLU
Chapter 11: Department of Homeland Security
Jodi Lieberman, APS
Chapter 12: Other Selected Agencies (Commerce, DOT, Interior, EPA, VA)
Kasey Shewey White, GSA; Sara Spizzirri, AAAS; and Heather Kelly, APA
PART III: DISCIPLINARY ANALYSES
Chapter 13: Physics
Christopher J. Mustain, COC; and Aline D. McNaull, AIP
Chapter 14: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Joshua H. Shiode and Joel R. Parriott, AAS
Chapter 15: Weather and Climate
Paul A.T. Higgins and Shalini Mohleji, AMS
Chapter 16: Geociences
Abigail Seadler and Maeve Boland, AGI
Chapter 17: Biological and Ecological Sciences
Terence Houston, ESA; and Julie Palakovich Carr, AIBS
Chapter 18: Chemical Sciences
Keri A. Moss, Caroline M. Trupp Gil, and Katherine P. Weber, ACS
Chapter 19: Social and Behavioral Science Research
Wendy Naus and Angela L. Sharpe, COSSA; Heather Kelly and Patricia Kobor, APA; and Gerald R. Sroufe and Christy Talbot, AERA
Chapter 20: Federal Statistics
Katherine R. Smith, COPAFS
Chapter 21: Mathematical Sciences
Samuel M. Rankin III, AMS
Chapter 22: Computing Research
Peter Harsha and Brian Mosley, CRA
Chapter 23: National Nanotechnology Investment
M.C. Roco, ASME
Chapter 24: Electrotechnology-Related Research
Chris J. Brantley and James Savage, IEEE-USA
Chapter 25: Mechanical Engineering
Dan Deckler, ASME
Chapter 26: Materials Science
Ronald L. Kelley, MRS
Chapter 27: Food, Nutrition, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Sciences
Bethany Johns, ASA, CSSA, SSSA; Sarah Ohlhorst, ASN; Jianrong (Janet) Zhang, IFT; Lowell Randel, FASS; and Jim Gulliford, SWCS
Appendix 1: The Federal Budget Process 101
Appendix 2: Methodology and Data Sources
Appendix 3: Definitions
Appendix 4: AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy
Appendix 5: Intersociety Working Group Directory