Federal R&D obligations increased 3 percent between fiscal years 2016 and 2017

Federal R&D obligations increased 3 percent between fiscal years 2016 and 2017

Federal obligations for research and development (R&D) totaled an estimated $118.3 billion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2017, an increase of 2.8 percent from total federal R&D obligations in FY2016.

Total obligations for research declined 0.3 percent to $66.5 billion in FY2017. Data are from the most recent Survey of Federal Funds for Research and Development, sponsored by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics within the National Science Foundation (NSF). Data for ...

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Published August 23, 2018 at 04:00PM
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