Accompanying the recent National Science Board’s “Science and Engineering Indicators 2012,” is a large appendix of statistics. Of note is Appendix table 4-35, “Federal obligations for research, by detailed S&E [Science & Engineering] field: Selected years, FY 1989 – 2009.
This table is particularly useful because in addition to providing funding levels in current dollars it also presents the figures in “Constant FY 2005 $millions.” A note to this table explains “Figures for FY 2009 include obligations from the additional federal R&D funding appropriated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009” – more generally known as the stimulus bill.
Selected data from the table follows, shown in millions of constant FY 2005 dollars:
