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Beginning with the FY2020 budget request, NITRD has annually reported consolidated Federal nondefense investments in AI R&D. This reporting began in response to Executive Order 13859, “Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence”, which required a standardized approach to accurately account for AI R&D investments across the Federal government. At that time, NITRD worked with Federal agencies to create a new Program Component Area  (PCA) for AI and also account for investments in AI R&D that are captured under other PCAs (refer to Table 1, footnote 4, for examples of distinctions between AI and other PCAs). This accounting aligns AI R&D investments with the key strategies in The National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan: 2019 Update and enables tracking of nondefense AI R&D investments from year to year. The National AI Initiative Act of 2020 also requires consistent reporting of AI R&D investments, to include investment in National AI Research Institutes, which were included for the first time in the FY 2022 report.

Table 1 shows two types of AI R&D investments: (1) Core AI: those with a primary emphasis on AI R&D, which are reported under the AI PCA, and (2) AI Crosscut: those with primary emphases in areas other than AI, which are reported in other PCAs (source: NITRD and NAIIO Supplement to the President’s FY2024 Budget).

For more information on Federal efforts in AI R&D, please refer to AI.gov.

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Chart 1: Federal Budget for AI R&D, FYs 2021-2024

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Chart 2: AI R&D FY2024 Budget Request by Agency

Budget ($ in Millions)
 

* Other: AHRQ, DHS/Coast Guard, DHS/CWMD, DHS/S&T, DHS/TSA, DOD/DTRA, DOD/MDA, DOD/OSD, DOD/Space Force, DOE/EERE, DOE/FE, DOE/NE, DOE/NNSA, DOE/OE, DOI/BSEE, DOI/USBR, DOT/FAA, DOT/FHWA, DOT/FMCSA, DOT/FRA, DOT/FTA, ED-IES, NARA, NASA/AERO., NASA/SCIENCE, NIJ, NIOSH, NOAA/ORF, NOAA/PAC, NTIA, TREAS/FCEN, USDA/ARS, VA
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Table 1. Agency Budgets by NITRD PCA for AI R&D FYs 2019–2024

The NITRD agencies’ requested investment in AI R&D for FY 2024 is $3,085.8 million.

Agency Fiscal Year AI ACNS CHuman CNPS CSP EdW ENIT EHCS HCIA IRAS LSDMA SPSQ Totals

 

Fiscal Year AI ACNS CHuman CNPS CSP EdW ENIT EHCS HCIA IRAS LSDMA SPSQ TOTALS
TOTALS FY 2022 Actual 1,838.60 38.1 140 35.1 48.2 50.2 3.1 80.3 134.7 70.2 413.4 62.2 2,914.10
TOTALS FY 2022 Suppl. 7.4 4.2 3.1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0 0.1 2 2.6 0.7 1 23.1
TOTALS FY 2023 Enacted 1,787.60 38 150.4 31.9 53.1 56.7 5 92.2 159.6 82.4 426.6 65.8 2949.2
TOTALS FY 2023 Suppl. 27.9 5.3 0 0 1.5 12.9 0 0 0 1 0 0 48.6
TOTALS FY 2024 Request 1,872.40 37.5 169.2 31.3 51.9 61.1 2.7 87.8 182.5 84.1 439.6 65.7 3,085.80

Notes for Table 1:

  • Amounts are in U.S. dollars in millions.
  • Budget supplemental figures for FY 2022 and FY 2023 have not been used to calculate changes between the FY 2022 and FY 2023 budget numbers.
  • For full names of agency subcomponents (departments and offices), please see Appendix A. https://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/FY2024-NITRD-NAIIO-Supplement.pdf#page=NN
  • Totals might not sum exactly as a result of rounding.
  • (1) Examples of AI R&D investments reported under the AI PCA are R&D on general methods for machine vision; (primarily) machine learning; cybersecurity challenges unique to AI (e.g., ability to exploit flaws in an AI system’s goals); algorithms for computational linguistics; and neuromorphic computing architectures or chips optimized for neural nets.
    (2) Examples of AI investments reported in other PCAs are R&D on robots (reported in IRAS); the data analysis and management ecosystem (reported in LSDMA); broad issues of human-machine interaction (reported in CHuman) and cybersecurity research (reported in CSP); and general neuromorphic computing (reported in EHCS).

 

Table 2. Agency Budgets for NSF-Led National AI Research Institutes, FYs 2022–2024

NSF-led National AI Research Institutes are requesting a total of $110.1 million for FY 2024, including NSF, DHS, DoD, Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences (ED-IES), NIST, and Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) investments.

FY AGENCIES TOTALS
NSF DHS DOD ED-IES USDA-NIFA NIST
FY 2022 Actual 53.9 2.0 0 20.0 2.0 77.9
FY 2023 Enacted 52.0 2.0 2.0 12.9 20.0 3.0 91.9
FY 2024 Request 74.0 2.0 2.0 2.1 20.0 10.0 110.1
Notes for Table 2:
  • Amounts are in U.S. dollars in millions.
  • Totals might not sum exactly as a result of rounding.
  • Industry and other private partners will contribute to some National AI Research Institutes (see Section 5.0).