Total
federal nondefense spending on research in 2014 exceeded $ 65 billion.)
Not exact matches
The new
federal budget plan matters and is increasing defense and
nondefense spending to the tune of $ 300 billion, which would put the fiscal year 2019 deficit at over $ 1 trillion or 6 % of gross domestic product (GDP).
In fact in FY 1996,
nondefense discretionary
spending was the only category of
federal spending that both sides agreed to cut.
Over the past four decades, except in the 1960s during the heyday of the Apollo Program (which in respect to R&D funding was an exceptional situation), trends in
nondefense R&D
spending have closely followed trends in overall
nondefense discretionary
spending, and trends in total
federal R&D, including defense, have tracked total discretionary
spending.
Not trumpeted by campaign literature, however, are the implications of these policies for civilian labs, both university - based and government - run, that will depend on shrinking
nondefense federal spending.
Once they'd guessed, half of the participants were told the actual amount that the
federal government allocates for
nondefense spending on research and development.