Federal R&D Funding by Budget Function. Fiscal years 2002-2004

摘要

This annual report contains information about Federal funding of the research and development (R&D) and the R&D plant components of agency programs, as proposed by the administration for fiscal year (FY) 2004. R&D data in this report are classified into the same Federal budget function categories used in the Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2004, prepared by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Proposed FY 2004 funding levels are for budget authority, which is the basis for initial congressional action. In future Budget Function annual reports, these data will be revised to reflect congressional appropriation and actual program-funding decisions. Detailed data are included on preliminary estimates of Federal funding of R&D for FY 2003. These data reflect all past congressional actions but may be revised, because FY 2003 had not been completed at the time of data collection. This report also includes detailed data (by subfunction) on actual budget authorizations of R&D by Federal agencies in FY 2002 and aggregate data (by broad function) on actual R&D budget authorizations in FY 2002 and earlier years.