nsf.gov - SRS Federal R&D Funding Down in FY 2007 - US National Science Foundation (NSF) 

Data presented here are from the NSF Survey of Federal Funds for Research and Development FY 2005–07. FY 2005 figures in this report are actual data, FY 2006 figures are preliminary, and FY 2007 figures ... are projections provided by the agencies surveyed. For the remainder of this report, discussions of changes in funding across years will be in terms of inflation-adjusted (or constant) dollars, and discussions of 2007 funding levels will be in current dollars. Federal Funding for Research and Development Federal research obligations have dropped each year since FY 2004, when these obligations were at their peak. Total research obligations dropped an estimated 7.2% between FY 2004 and FY 2007, with the largest decline attributable to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS is the leading federal agency in terms of research support, accounting for an estimated 52% of the total federal research budget in FY 2007. Estimated HHS obligations for research in FY 2007 are 5.6% bel   [More...] [Less...]

FY 2009 Administration Research and Development Budget Priorities [pdf]