Federal R&D Funding, by Budget Function: Fiscal Years 2015-17

This report contains information on the budget authority of U.S. federal agencies to fund research and development and R&D plant in FYs 2015-17. FY 2015 data are agencies' actual budget authority. FY 2016 data (preliminary) are estimates. FY 2017 data are the funding levels proposed by the president's U.S. government budget for that year. (Final legislation on federal spending in FY 2017 had not been enacted by the president and Congress by the time of report release.) Two tables provide year-to-year time series data on actual federal budget authority for R&D by broad function back to FY 1955.