FY16 NSF and NIH Budget Developments

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FY16 NSF and NIH Budget Developments

By Steve Pierson posted 01-15-2015 13:16

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[10/14 update: I added in AHRQ info because of recent ASA member interest in the House's proposal to zero it's budget and the Senate proposal to cut its budget by 35%.]

The FY16 federal budget will be released February 2, 2015. This blog entry will track FY16 appropriations developments for NSF and NIH and so will updated accordingly. (See log updates below.) To receive notifications of updates, follow ASA Science Policy on Twitter: @ASA_SciPol.

Because this blog entry covers everything from the budget request to the final determination of the budget, it can become quite long. To help with that, I'll try to partition the blog entry:

Reports on the FY16 Request
Reports on Congressional Consideration of FY16 budgets
NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences Table
Update log

						FY16
	FY11	FY12	FY13	FY14	FY15	Request	% increase	House	Senate	Conference	% change
NIH	30.688	30.623	29.300	30.070¹	30.311¹	31.311	3.3	31.2*	32.3*	32.084	5.8
AHRQ		$381 million	371	371	363.7	363.7	0	0	236	334	-8
NSF	6.913	7.033	6.884	7.172	7.344	7.724	5.2	7.394***	7.344*	7.463	1.6

¹FY14 and FY15 levels are Program levels. FY15 NIH level includes Ebola funding.
Levels in billions of dollars
Latest Action: ^*Subcommittee mark-up; ^**Committee mark-up; ^***Passed the Floor

The money chase, 2016: U.S. budget out today, be ready with this six-chart primer on science spending, David Malakoff, ScienceInsider, 2/2/15.
NSF Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Request, Commuting Community Consortium (CCC) blog.
FY 2016 Budget Request: National Science Foundation, American Institute of Physics FYI
White House fleshes out Obama’s $215 million plan for precision medicine, Jocelyn Kaiser, ScienceInsider, 1/30/15.
NSF's new budget reflects White House priorities on climate and environment, Jeffrey Mervis, ScienceInsider, 2/5/15.
Budget for 2016 accentuates the practical, Jeffrey Mervis, Science, 2/6/15.
Biomedical initiatives get top billing in budget rollout, Jocelyn Kaiser, Kelly Servick, Science, 2/6/15.
CISE AD Issues Letter to Community on FY 16 Budget Rollout, CCC blog.
Obama budget seeks big boost for science, Boer Deng, Richard Monastersky, Lauren Morello, Sara Reardon & Jeff Tollefson, Nature, 2/5/15.
AAAS analysis

Reports on Congressional Consideration of FY`16 budgets

House spending panel does its best to hide large cut to NSF social and geosciences research, Jeffrey Mervis, ScienceInsider, 5/22/15.
Congressional Republicans split over climate, social science spending, Jeffrey Mervis, ScienceInsider, 6/15/15.
House bill would give NIH $1.1 billion more in 2016, Jocelyn Kaiser, ScienceInsider, 6/16/15
Senate panel approves $2 billion raise for NIH in 2016, Jocelyn Kaiser, ScienceInsider, 6/23/15
NIH sees reversal of fortune with proposed funding boosts, Sarah Karlin, Politico, 7/7/15
Budget agreement boosts U.S. science, ScienceInsider, 12/16/15.
12/23/15: COSSA Analysis of the FY 2016 OMNIBUS APPROPRIATIONS BILL and Implications for Social and Behavioral Science Research

For the NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences the FY13, FY14, and FY15 Request numbers are

		FY13	FY14	FY15	FY16 request	$change	%change
	DMS	$219.0 M	224.97	231.73	235.47	3.74	0.9

Updates (and sources):

2/2/15: President's budget release: ScienceInsider; NIH FY16 budget slides, NIH FY16 Congressional Justification; NSF FY16 budget request tri-fold
2/3/15: DMS details
5/13/15: House Draft CJS Bill Press Release
6/10/15: Senate CJS press release
6/17/15: NIH level from ScienceInsider
10/14/15: AHRQ levels obtained from Senate LHHS committee report
12/16/15: NSF updated from omnibus conference report part B
1216/15: NIH and AHRQ updated from omnibus part H

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