White House: FY2013 Budget Supports Commitment to Three "Key" Science Agencies, NASA Not One of Them
President Obama’s FY2013 budget request for science and technology (S&T) and research and development (R&D) supports the Administration’s commitment to double the budgets for three “key” science agencies, a list that does not include NASA.
Those three agencies are the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), and the Office of Science in the Department of Energy (DOE/Science). They will get a total of $13.1 billion, a 4.4 percent increase over FY2012, according to a White House fact sheet.
The total FY2013 budget request is $3.8 trillion, of which $140.8 billion across the government is for R&D, an increase of 1.4 percent over FY2012. OSTP says that includes a cut to defense-related development, but an increase for non-defense R&D of 5 percent over the FY2012 level.
NASA’s budget request is $17.7 billion, a small decrease from its FY2012 appropriated level of $17.8 billion, but a substantial decrease from the projected level of $18.7 billion shown last year in NASA’s budget materials. OSTP identifies $9.6 billion of NASA’s FY2013 budget request as R&D and that portion of NASA’s budget would get a 2.2 percent increase in FY2013.
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