According to a presentation at the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science (AAA), the AAAS estimates that the proposed fiscal 2012 US federal budget would provide a 0.5% increase in R&D funding to $147.9 billion compared with fiscal 2010 (the fiscal 2011 budget has not yet been passed by Congress). Basic research would receive an 11.9% increase to $32.9 billion. Applied research would receive $33.2 billion for an 11.4% increase. Development funding would dip 4.7% to $79.4 billion, and Equipment and Facilities funding would fall 47.8% to $2.4 billion. Total nondefense R&D would grow 6.5% to $66.8 billion. The National Institutes of Health would receive a 3.4% increase in R&D funding to $31.2 billion. For the Department of Energy, R&D would grow 19.9% to $13.0 billion, with Energy R&D up 38.6% to $3.5 billion and the Office of Science’s R&D budget up 9.1% to $4.9 billion. The fiscal 2012 R&D budget for the National Science Foundation would rise 16.1% to $6.3 billion. US Department of Agriculture R&D would decline 17.7% to $2.2 billion, but the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s R&D budget would jump 48.3% to $872 million.

Source: AAAS