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June 30, 2015
Federal agencies obligated $29 billion to 995 science and engineering
academic institutions in fiscal year 2013, according to a new report from
the National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Center for Science and
Engineering Statistics (NCSES). The figure represents a 6 percent decline in
current dollars from the previous year, when agencies provided $31 billion
to 1,073 institutions.
After adjustment for inflation, federal science and engineering obligations
to academic institutions dropped by $1 billion from FY 2011 to FY 2012, and
by $2 billion between FY 2012 and FY 2013. The obligations fall into six
categories:
Research and development;
R&D plant (facilities and fixed equipment, such as reactors, wind
tunnels and particle accelerators);
Facilities and equipment for instruction in science and engineering;
Fellowships, traineeships and training grants;
General support for science and engineering;
Other science and engineering activities.
Of those categories, research and development accounted for 89 percent of
total federal obligations during the past three years.
The three largest providers of federal funding in fiscal 2013 were the
Department of Health and Human Services (58 percent), NSF (17 percent) and
the Department of Defense (12 percent). The Department of Energy, the
Department of Agriculture and NASA provided the remainder of funding (11
percent, combined). Of these six agencies, only the Department of Energy
showed increased obligations between FY 2012 and FY 2013.
The leading 20 universities, ranked in terms of federal academic S&E
obligations, accounted for 37 percent of the FY 2013 federal total. The
Johns Hopkins University continued to receive the most federal obligations
of any university, at $1.5 billion.
NCSES collects information about federal obligations to independent
nonprofit institutions in two categories: research and development, and R&D
plant. The $6.6 billion provided to 1,068 institutions in FY 2013
represented a 2 percent decrease from $6.8 billion the previous year. The
leading 10 nonprofits accounted for 36 percent of fiscal 2013 funding, with
the MITRE Corporation receiving the largest total, at $485 million.
The statistics are from the NCSES Survey of Federal Science and Engineering
Support to Universities, Colleges and Nonprofit Institutions.
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