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 Total Federal Discretionary Funds = $531 Billion 



R&D = $73 Billion 

 14% 



Defense 



R&D 



•14% 



Commerce-Justice-State 



R&D 

 6% 

 VA-HUD 



^--^ R&D 



/^^'^^/19% 



/ ^^^ Agriculture^ 







\ y Labor-HHS Interior \_J 



/ ^^\ Energy-Water V_y 



R&D 



' 29% 



FIGURE U.IO Appropriations subcommittees' roles in funding R&D. 



NOTE: Fourteen percent of the federal government's total discretionary funds went for R&D, based 

 on fiscal year 1995 appropriations prior to the July 1995 recisions. The discretionary budget ex- 

 cludes mandator\- federal spending and spending for entitlements, leaving $531 billion, of which 

 $~3 billion was appropriated initially for R&D by current definitions (in contrast to the committee's 

 recommended FS&T definition discussed in Part 1 of this report and in Supplements 1 and 2). R&D 

 funds are concentrated in the jurisdictions of 7 of the 13 appropriations subcommittees, which 

 allocate from 6 to 29 percent of their discretionary funds to R&D. The largest R&D allocations are 

 made by the Defense. Veterans Affairs-Housing and Urban Development, and Labor-Health and 

 Human Ser\ices subcommittees For committee names and their R&D jurisdictions, see note for 

 Figure 11.9. This information is based on 1995 appropriations prior to the July 1995 budget recisions, 

 which reduced R&D funding by a total of $ 1 .9 billion, taken from several programs. 

 SOURCE: Adapted from data provided by the R&D Budget and Polic)- Project, American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, 'Washington, D.C. 



Tactical Allocations Among Programs, Fields, and Disciplines Are Made 



Largely Within Departments and Agencies, •with Some Specific 



Congressional Direction 



The mission of the National Science Foundation is to support R&D across a 

 wide i^nge of topics. For the National Science Foundation, tactical allocation is 

 largely a matter of allocating funds across its various R&D programs in support of 

 fields or disciplines. 



