In his 2013 budget, President Obama proposed total federal R&D spending of $140.8 billion; a 1.4% increase over 2012 enacted levels. Basic and applied research funding would grow 1.5% and 5.0% to $30.6 billion and $33.4 billion, respectively. Development funding would decrease less than 1% to $74.1 billion. The proposal includes a 10.9% R&D boost for Equipment and Facilities to $2.7 billion. The R&D budget for non-defense spending would grow 5.0% to $64.9 billion. The National Institutes of Standards and Technology would get a 239.5% boost to $1.9 billion, but that amount includes funding for the creation of the Wireless Innovation Fund and the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation. At the Department of Energy, the Office of Science’s budget would increase 2.4% to $4.6 billion for R&D, while the budget for Energy R&D would jump 16.2% to $2.6 billion. The EPA would receive a 2.1% R&D boost to $580 million. The NIH R&D budget would stay flat at $30.0 billion, and the USDA’s R&D budget would slip 1.5% to $5.9 billion.

Source: White House Office of Science and Technology Policy