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The annual NITRD and NAIIO Supplement to the President’s FY2024 Budget provides a technical summary of NITRD research investments and activities planned and coordinated through the NITRD Program in a given Federal budget cycle, as required by the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 (P.L. 102-194) and reauthorized by Congress in the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act of 2017 (P.L. 114-329). The budget reporting and technical program summaries are organized by NITRD Program Component Areas (PCAs), where the PCAs are major subject areas for federal IT R&D. PCAs are intended to facilitate budgetary comparisons from year to year in each area. The PCA set does evolve over time, reflecting changes in IT R&D activities at federal agencies and IT R&D priorities of the Administration. The Supplement provides NITRD members’ budget reporting for the most recently completed budget cycle, the current budget cycle, and the budget requests for the next fiscal year. Budget information for the entire span of the NITRD Program, mirroring that reported in the annual Supplements, is captured in visual and interactive forms of this NITRD Dashboard.

* AI budget: not all AI investments are included in PCA tables, only those directly focused on AI. For a full report on AI R&D investments please see AI R&D Investments.

 

NITRD R&D Budgets: Fiscal Years 1992–2024

Budget* : FY00-FY09: Estimates, FY10-FY22: Actual, FY23: Estimate, FY24: Request



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Supplemental Budgets: Fiscal Years 2022-2024

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.

FY Budget Agency ACNS AI CHuman CNPS CSP EdW ENIT EHCS HCIA IRAS LSDMA SPSQ TOTALS
2022 Supplemental DOD 19.5 1.3 3.8 0 0.2 0 0 34.3 0 10.9 0 0 69.9
2022 Supplemental DOE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 163.8 0 0 0 163.8
2022 Supplemental FDA 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.2
2022 Supplemental NIH 0 0.6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6.5 0 7.1
2022 Supplemental NOAA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 0 0 3.4 28.4
2022 Supplemental NSF 4.1 5.4 4.6 2.8 2.9 6.2 0.4 1.1 0.3 0.9 2.8 0.4 32
2022 Supplemental NTIA 150 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 150
2022 Supplemental USDA 0 0 0 0 0 140 0 0 0 0 0 0 140
2022 Supplemental All Agencies 173.6 7.4 8.4 2.8 3.1 146.2 0.4 35.4 189.1 11.8 9.3 3.8 591.4
2023 Supplemental DOD 26.3 0 0 0 10 0 0 30 0 7.6 0 0 73.9
2023 Supplemental DOE 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
2023 Supplemental ED-IES 0 0 0 0 0 12.9 0 0 0 0 0 0 12.9
2023 Supplemental FDA 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.2
2023 Supplemental NIH 0 0.3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.8 0 3.1
2023 Supplemental NSF 7.3 24.5 1.1 15.6 3.6 6.7 10.8 0.2 0.6 4.6 13.8 2.9 91.5
2023 Supplemental NTIA 1350 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1350
2023 Supplemental All Agencies 1383.6 27.9 1.1 15.6 13.6 19.6 10.8 30.2 0.6 12.2 16.6 2.9 1534.6

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NITRD Agency Budgets for AWN R&D: FYs 2022–2024

Figures in Table below break out those portions of NITRD member agencies’ R&D investments in the LSN PCA that are primarily dedicated to advanced wireless networks. Advanced Wireless Networks (AWN) R&D investments are typically coordinated through NITRD’s WSRD IWG. (The FY2021 Budget Supplement referred to AWN investments as advanced communications networks or ACN.) The FY2021 Supplement was the first time NITRD collected AWN (ACN) R&D numbers; they are not comparable to NITRD budget reporting earlier than in the FY2021 Supplement. Agencies’ budget requests for FY 2024 AWN R&D total $295.4 million.

FY Budget DARPA DOD/Navy DOE/NE NIH NIST NSF NTIA TOTALS
2022 Actual 27 17.6   25.6 6.2 161.6 11.3 249.3
2022-S Supplemental           2.6 150 152.6
2023 Enacted 36 24.4 0.1 26.2 6.3 153.7 12.6 259.3
2023-S Supplemental           7.3 1,350.00 1,357.30
2024 Request 34.6 30 0.2 26.2 6.3 178.1 20 295.4

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Changes to the NITRD PCAs: 2017-2024

  • FY2024: Following a major revision in FY 2023, the NITRD PCAs were reviewed to ensure that the NITRD Program actively addresses evolving IT R&D and policy needs.
  • FY2023: Renaming of Large Scale Networking (LSN) to Advanced Communication Networks and Systems (ACNS), and updates to the definitions of most PCAs.
  • FY2022: Added the Electronics for Networking and Information Technology (ENIT) PCA
  • FY2020: Added the Artificial Intelligence (AI) PCA, including guidance on what R&D areas fall under the AI PCA versus other PCAs.
  • FY2020: Updated the CHuman PCA to remove overlap with the AI PCA and to focus on group/collaborative systems, tools, and studies rather than individuals.
  • FY2020: Updated the SPSQ PCA to reflect the current state of software research.
  • FY2019: All FY2018 PCA definitions were streamlined to a common format for FY2019
  • FY2019: The FY2018 CSIA PCA was updated to explicitly include privacy R&D and renamed to CSP for FY2019
  • FY2019: The FY2018 RIS PCA was renamed to IRAS for FY2019
  • FY2019: The FY2018 SDP PCA was renamed to SPSQ for FY2019
  • FY2018: The FY2017 HCSS PCA was renamed to CNPS in FY2018
  • FY2018: The FY2017 SEW PCA was renamed to EdW in FY2018, and Social Computing aspects of SEW are reported in the CHuman PCA starting in FY2018
  • FY2018: The FY2017 HCI&IM PCA was discontinued; starting in FY2018, HCI activities are reported under CHuman, and IM activities of are reported under LSDMA
  • FY2018: The FY2017 HCIA was renamed to HCIA in FY2018
  • FY2017: The FY2016 HEC R&D PCA has been updated and renamed to EHCS in FY2017
  • FY2017: The FY2016 HEC I&A PCA has been updated and renamed to HCIA in FY2017
  • FY2017: IM aspects of the FY2016 HCI&IM PCA were moved to the new LSDMA PCA in FY2017
  • FY2017: Robotics aspects of the FY2016 HCI&IM and HCSS PCAs were moved to the new RIS PCA in FY2017
  • FY2017: Added the Enabling-R&D for High-Capability Computing Systems (EHCS) PCA
  • FY2017: Added the High-Capability Computing Systems Infrastructure and Applications (HCIA) PCA
  • FY2017: Added the Large-Scale Data Management and Analysis (LSDMA) PCA
  • FY2017: Added the Robotics and Intelligent Systems (RIS) PCA

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