Yesterday the House Appropriations Committee passed the FY 2004
Defense Appropriations bill with a budget increase of 10.4% over the
current year for the Defense Department's science and technology
programs. While the accompanying committee report has not yet been
published, science and technology funding figures are available.
House appropriators continue to give defense science and technology
programs a high priority. The bill House appropriators approved
yesterday reduced total funding for the overall bill by about $3
billion from the Administration's request, but increased S&T spending
by 16.2% over the President's request. It is also of note that the
committee allocated 3.2% of the bill's total funding to the S&T
program. This percentage, the same percentage that was appropriated
in last year's bill by the committee, surpasses the 3.0% target
recommended by the Defense Science Board and the Quadrennial Defense
Review. The committee's S&T appropriation is also higher than that
recommended by the Coalition for National Security Research, to which
AIP and several of its Member Societies belong (see
http://cnsr.org/); the below figures
were provided by the coalition.
The percentage and dollar figures below are for the changes in the
three S&T programs between the current year and the FY 2004 proposed
budgets. Figures are provided in the aggregate, for the three
branches and Defense-Wide programs. The "Defense-Wide"category
is
not total spending, but rather spending for DARPA, missile defense,
and other defense labs. It is important to note that some of the
research that is now conducted and funded under the Defense-Wide
category would be shifted to the three service branches in FY 2004;
thus the first set of figures provides the clearest picture of the
overall changes in the bill.
AGGREGATE 6.1 (basic research) funding would increase 1.1%
AGGREGATE 6.2 (applied research) funding would increase 2.2%
AGGREGATE 6.3 (advanced technology development) funding would
increase 20.0%
TOTAL AGGREGATE 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 funding would increase 10.4%, from
$10,772 million to $11,891 million
ARMY 6.1 funding would increase 54.1%
ARMY 6.2 funding would increase 18.2%
ARMY 6.3 funding would increase 10.2%
TOTAL AGGREGATE ARMY 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 funding would increase 18.4%,
from $2,142 million to $2,536 million
NAVY 6.1 funding would increase 16.0%
NAVY 6.2 funding would decline 17.7%
NAVY 6.3 funding would increase 13.7%
TOTAL AGGREGATE NAVY 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 funding would increase 1.7%,
from $2,031 million to $2,065 million
AIR FORCE 6.1 funding would increase 52.8%
AIR FORCE 6.2 funding would increase 8.0%
AIR FORCE 6.3 funding would increase 85.9%
TOTAL AGGREGATE AIR FORCE 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 funding would increase
44.9% from $1,751 million to $2,537 million
DEFENSE-WIDE 6.1 funding would decline 55.0%
DEFENSE-WIDE 6.2 funding would increase 0.7%
DEFENSE WIDE 6.3 funding would increase 7.6%
TOTAL AGGREGATE DEFENSE-WIDE funding would decline 2.0% from $4,848
million to $4,753 million
The Senate Appropriations Committee is expected to complete work on
its version of this bill during the second week of July.
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