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Federal R&D: A Quick Recap and Outlook Matt Hourihan February 13-17, 2014 for the AAAS Annual Meeting AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd

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Federal R&D: A Quick Recap and Outlook

Matt HourihanFebruary 13-17, 2014for the AAAS Annual Meeting

AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Programhttp://www.aaas.org/spp/rd

Positive outcomes Physical Sciences did

well Defense S&T Department of Energy

Technology programs and Science

NSF facilities, EPSCoR, political science

NASA Science and Exploration

Defense contractors NIH overall

Better for translational science, IDeA, BRAIN

Environmental R&D But cuts avoided

High-performance rail

Less positive

GDP

Looking ahead… President’s budget to be released March 4, for now

Priorities: manufacturing, clean energy, climate, IT and computing, biological innovation, neuroscience, STEM Ed

Discretionary spending in FY 2015 has already been agreed And will increase hardly at all 25% of sequester reductions rolled back Beyond FY 2015: back to sequester levels

Big-picture fiscal challenges remain largely unchanged

For more info…

[email protected]

202-326-6607

www.aaas.org/spp/rd/