Federal Budget Authority for R&D Declines in FYs 2012 and 2013; Increase Proposed for FY 2014.

摘要

New data indicate that federal budget authority for research and development and R&D plant together in FY 2012 totaled $143.7 billion (current dollars). The corresponding figure for FY 2013 was an estimated $133.5 billion, a decline of 7.1% over the FY 2012 level (table 1, figure 1). Although the budget authority total had been declining yearly since FY 2011, this sizable drop in FY 2013 stemmed chiefly from the across-the-board spending cuts (sequestration) mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011.