Federal RampD in FY 2017 Matt Hourihan October 3 2016 For the ASU DARPA Young Faculty Awardees AAAS RampD Budget and Policy Program httpwwwaaasorgprogramrdbudgetandpolicyprogram The Federal Budget is Kind Of a Big Deal ID: 761688
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Federal R&D in FY 2017 Matt Hourihan October 3, 2016 For the ASU DARPA Young Faculty Awardees AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program http://www.aaas.org/program/rd-budget-and-policy-program
The Federal Budget is Kind Of a Big Deal “Politics is who gets what, when, and how.” - Harold Lasswell “Budgeting is about values, and it’s about choices.” – Rep. Rosa DeLauro Every dollar in the budget has its claimants! Negotiation between competing interests (and their proxies) in a decentralized system Major impact for R&D and innovation: most basic research, and most university research, is federally funded
From Budget to Appropriations Committees Budget Resolution limits Approps Committees Subcommittees [302(b) allocations] These caps remain in place all the way to floor, but can be revised as needed Twelve Appropriations Subcommittees Nine subcommittees responsible for at least $1 billion of R&D Approps led by “Cardinals” Committee Chairs : Rep. Hal Rogers (KY), Sen. Thad Cochran (MS) Ranking Members: Rep. Nita Lowey (NY), Sen. Barbara Mikulski (MD) Appropriators will often have their own priorities “ There are three parties: Democrats, Republicans, and appropriators” “ President proposes, Congress disposes ”
Defense Bill Over $500 billion Tradeoffs: balancing force modernization, readiness, personnel costs, near-term versus long-term RDT&E (and medical research) Offset Strategy What to do about war funding? House Senate Chair Rodney Frelinghuysen (NJ) Thad Cochran (MS) Ranking Member Pete Visclosky (IN) Dick Durbin (IL)
Agency Highlights: NIH $33.1 billion program level (+$825 million, +2.6%) OR $31.3 billion program level (-$1 billion, -3.1%) Of the $1.825 billion in mandatory spending: $825 million for cancer research, BRAIN Initiative, Precision Medicine Remaining $1 billion to keep all other ICs flat 17.5% success rate in FY17
Labor, HHS, Education >$150 billion Deep divisions – especially Obamacare Usually one of the hardest to pass, thus usually one of the last out of the gate Everybody likes NIH lately Especially Alzheimer’s research Cancer moonshot? Success rates? House Senate Chair Tom Cole (OK) Roy Blount (MO) Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT) Patty Murray (WA)
Commerce, Justice, Science ~$55 billion Tradeoffs: Balancing Depts. of Justice and Commerce (including NOAA and NIST), NASA, NSF Among science programs, NASA’s star is somewhat ascendant NSF: Modest year all around Social and geo science funding? Facilities? House Senate Chair John Culberson (TX) Richard Shelby (AL) Ranking Member Mike Honda (CA) Barbara Mikulski (MD)
Looking Ahead Good approps progress but regular order broke down, because of course it did CR through Dec. 9 Included Zika funding And full-year MilCon Next: omnibus (?) negotiations, to lead to legislation in late fall March: Debt ceiling. Ugh. FY 2018: Sequester-level spending returns, maybe
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