R&D for Defense, NASA garner funding rise - Budget Boosts and Busts - federal budget

Science News,  Feb 8, 2003  by S. Perkins

Tags: NASA, R&D, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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Among the agencies that lose R&D funding in this budget are the Department of Commerce, which includes the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. That department is scheduled to take a 10 percent hit. Also, the Environmental Protection Agency's expenditures are proposed to drop by 12.6 percent.

The Department of Agriculture will harvest a mere 0.2 percent more than it did in last year's budget proposal.

R&D Budget Proposal (millions of dollars) *

                                                      PERCENT
AGENCY OR             FY 2002    FY 2003    FY 2004   CHANGE([dagger])
DEPARTMENT           ESTIMATE   PROPOSED   PROPOSED   2003-2004

Defense                49,409     57,498     62,753      7.6
NIH ([double
 dagger])              22,581     26,524     27,056      0.5
NASA                    9,611     10,071     11,009      7.7
Energy                  8,056      8,076      8,535      4.2
NSF                     3,557      3,692      4,062      8.4
Agriculture             2,112      1,911      1,943      0.2
Commerce                1,376      1,304      1,190    -10.0
Homeland Security
  ([section])             266        761      1,001      29.6
Interior                  623        575        633       8.5
EPA                       416        627        556     -12.6
Other                   4,022      3,963      4,000      -0.5
Total                 102,029    115,002    122,738       5.2

* Adapted from Office of Management and Budget and National Institutes
of Health data; figures reflect rounding.

([dagger]) Adjusted for 1.46 percent expected inflation.

([double dagger]) A part of the Department of Health and Human
Services.

([section]) Previous-year budget figures for the Department of Homeland
Security reflect combined totals of its previously separate components.

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