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MOST RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
President Bush has proposed to increase R&D spending 4.2% in FY2004, requesting
a record level of $122.7 billion. DOD would receive the largest proposed increase, climbing
to a proposed record high of $61.8 billion. The Department of Homeland Security's research
budget would increase 30% to $1 billion. As President Bush continues to restrain the growth
of civilian discretionary spending, civilian R& D will have to compete with other priorities
such as health, education, transportation, and homeland security. Nevertheless, Congress is
likely to consider proposals to place funding for NSF back on the doubling track, restrain the
growth of earmarking (which reached $1.8 billion in FY2000), increase funding for DOD's
basic and applied research budgets, and restore funding for NIST's ATP and MEP programs.
However, with Congress approving a FY2004 Budget Resolution (H.Con.Res. 95) that, in
real dollars cuts civilian discretionary spending, efforts to increase funding for NSF and other
agencies will be difficult to achieve.
BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
The FY2004 budget request for research and education in the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) is $2,266 million, a slight decrease of $4.1 million from the FY2003
level of $2,270.1 million (see Table 1). The FY2004 request provides increased funding
for several continuing research priority areas: new uses for agricultural products, global
climate change, agricultural genomes, biosecurity, agricultural information services, and
homeland security supplemental. Other priority areas include protecting agriculture and U.S.
trade from terrorism, and emerging and exotic diseases of both plants and animals. Research
programs on emerging and exotic diseases are part of the infrastructure to enhance homeland
security. The USDA has five biocontainment complexes where research and diagnostic work
is done on organisms that pose serious threats to the crop, poultry, and livestock industries.
Also, USDA is concerned with training and educating the next generation of agricultural
scientists and supporting core university-based research. The request provides increased
funding to address these areas.
The USDA conducts in-house basic and applied research. The Agricultural Research
Service (ARS) is the lead federal agency for nutrition research, operating five majorlaboratories in this area, including the world's large multi-disciplinary agricultural research
center located at Beltsville, Maryland. There are approximately 100 research facilities
throughout the U.S. and abroad. ARS laboratories focus on efficient food and fiber
production, preservation of genetic resources, development of new products and uses for
agricultural commodities, development of effective biocontrols for pest management, and
support of USDA regulatory and technical assistance programs. The FY2004 request
provides $1,034 million for ARS, $11.9 million below the FY2003 level. Reductions are
proposed in all projects earmarked by Congress in FY2003 in order to finance high priority
program increases. The FY2004 request proposes a $3.5 million increase for animal
genomics and $8.3 million for emerging diseases and biosecurity. There is also an increase
proposed for information technology cyber security and animal waste related problems. TheCRS-1
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