More ...Obama Administration FY '10 Request

OK, the folks at APLU have assessed the rest of the administration's budget request as it relates to federal agencies that support some of our efforts at A&M.



NOAA
For FY2010, the Administration has requested $4.5 billion for NOAA, which represents an increase of $110 million, or 2.5 percent, over level included in the FY2009 omnibus appropriations bill.

The FY2010 budget can be broken down into two accounts: $3.206 billion for Operations, Research, & Facilities (ORF); and $1.393 billion for Procurement, Acquisition, & Construction (PAC). These two accounts can be divided further into six project categories:

Satellites - $1.429 billion (21.3 percent increase)
Fisheries - $911.8 million (3.7 percent increase)
Research & Climate - $404.6 million (0.9 percent decrease)
Oceans & Coasts - $502.7 million (10.0 percent decrease)
Weather - $963.9 million (0.5 percent increase)
Program Support - $452.7 million (19.0 percent decrease)

The Satellites category received both the largest FY2010 funding request and the largest increase of any FY2010 funding request over the FY2009 Omnibus Appropriation. This category is mainly composed of satellite acquisition projects. In addition, NOAA requested $20.6 million for its Competitive Grant Program, an increase of $4.0 million from FY2009.

On a related note, in FY2009, NOAA also received $830 million in appropriations from the ARRA. Congress approved the NOAA spending plan for the ARRA appropriations on May 7, 2009. The $830 million will be divided into three groups: $230 million for habitat restoration, navigations services, vessel maintenance, and environmental reviews/consultations; $430 million for the construction and repair of NOAA facilities, ships, and equipment, and improvements for weather forecasting and satellite development; and $170 million for climate modeling activities.

The request for Office of Atmospheric Research (OAR), which is $404.6 million, can be broken down further in the following manner:

· Climate research: $209.8 million
· Weather and Air Quality Research: $63.9
· Ocean, Coastal, and Great Lakes Research: $107.4 million
· Information Technology, Research and Development, and Science Education: $13.1 million
· Procurement, Acquisition, and Construction: $10.4 million

The NOAA budget can be found on the following website: http://www.corporateservices.noaa.gov/~nbo/10bluebook_highlights.html.

NASA
The Obama Administration is seeking a total of $18.7 billion for the agency, an increase of approximately 5.1 percent over the amount included in the FY2009 omnibus appropriations bill.

The Science Directorate would be funded at $4.48 billion. The regular FY2009 appropriations bill allocated $4.50 billion to the directorate while ARRA added another $400 million. The budget proposes to fund the Aeronautics Directorate at $507 million; the regular FY2009 bill funded the directorate at $500 million with ARRA providing an infusion of $150 million.

Within Science, the Administration proposes to fund Earth Science at $1.41 billion (it received $1.38 billion in FY2009 and $325 million in the stimulus package) while it would support Planetary Science at $1.35 billion ($1.33 billion in FY2009). Astrophysics would receive $1.12 billion, compared to $1.21 billion for the current year, and Heliophysics would be funded at $605.0 million, compared to $591.6 million for the current year.

Additional NASA budget details are available at the following link: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/344612main_Agency_Summary_Final_updates_5_6_09_R2.pdf.

USGS
In FY2009, the USGS received an estimated amount of $1.04 billion. Under the Administration budget proposal, the agency would receive approximately $1.10 billion in FY2010.

Additional details about the USGS budget are available at the following URL: http://www.doi.gov/budget/2010/data/greenbook/FY2010_USGS_Greenbook.pdf.


DOD
The initial A۰P۰L۰U summary of the budget documents explained the changes in request between the current year and FY2010 without actually providing the actual requests for FY2010. The Administration requests for the basic and applied research programs are as follows:

· Total Basic Research (“6.1”): $1.8 billion
· Total Applied Research (“6.2”): $4.25 billion

· Army basic research: $377.3 million
· Army applied research: $781.2 million

· Navy basic research: $531.3 million
· Navy applied research: $594.0 million

· Air Force basic research: $466.1 million
· Air Force applied research: $1.1 billion

· Defense-wide basic research: $423.6 million
· Defense-wide applied research: $1.78 billion