Federal Funds For Research And Development: Fiscal Years 2009-11 - National Service Foundation

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Federal Funds for Research and Development: Fiscal
Years 2009–11
Detailed Statistical Tables | NSF 12-318 | July 2012
Michael Yamaner,
Project Officer
Research and Development Statistics Program
(703) 292-7815
General Notes
This report is volume 59 of the Federal Funds series of detailed statistical tables. It presents
data collected by the Survey of Federal Funds for Research and Development for the federal
fiscal years 2009–11. In July 2010 the survey was sent to all federal agencies identified as
conducting R&D programs, and 27 agencies reported R&D funding levels as of the second
quarter of FY 2009. The basis for reporting is determined by fiscal year:
FY 2009 data are completed transactions
FY 2010 data are estimates of congressional appropriation actions and apportionment
and reprogramming decisions
FY 2011 data are estimates of administration budget proposals not yet acted on
Subsequent volumes in this series will show authorization, appropriation, deferral, and
apportionment actions completed after these data were collected.
The data tables provide R&D totals as outlays and obligations. Obligations data are sorted as
follows:
Character of work (basic research, applied research, development, and R&D plant)
Federal agency
Field of science or engineering (for research but not for development)
Geographical area
Performer
Each year, agencies report obligations or outlays incurred or expected to be incurred in that
year, no matter when the agencies' funds were authorized, appropriated, or received.
Agencies report R&D funding whether or not their budgets itemize funds for research,
development, and R&D plant.
Because many agency R&D programs are not identified as budget line items, agency officials
must identify R&D and R&D plant activities within broader programs. Accuracy of the data
depends on how well federal respondents meet these survey requirements. In 2009 the
Department of the Air Force (AF) notified the National Science Foundation (NSF) that it had
not reported Budget Activity (BA) 6.7 Operational Systems Development to the survey since
FY 2000 because the agency misunderstood the reporting requirements. For this report AF
revised actual data for FY 2000–07 to include BA 6.7 Operational Systems Development and

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