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The annual NITRD and NAIIO Supplement to the President’s FY2023 Budget provides a technical summary of NITRD research investments and activities planned and coordinated through the NITRD Program in a given Federal budget cycle, as required by the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 (P.L. 102-194) and reauthorized by Congress in the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act of 2017 (P.L. 114-329). The budget reporting and technical program summaries are organized by NITRD Program Component Areas (PCAs), where the PCAs are major subject areas for federal IT R&D. PCAs are intended to facilitate budgetary comparisons from year to year in each area. The PCA set does evolve over time, reflecting changes in IT R&D activities at federal agencies and IT R&D priorities of the Administration. The Supplement provides NITRD members’ budget reporting for the most recently completed budget cycle, the current budget cycle, and the budget requests for the next fiscal year. Budget information for the entire span of the NITRD Program, mirroring that reported in the annual Supplements, is captured in visual and interactive forms of this NITRD Dashboard.

President’s overall FY 2023 budget request for Federal agencies’ NITRD-related R&D is $9.6 billion—an increase of approximately 23.1 percent compared to the $7.8 billion originally requested for FY 2022. The increase of $1.8 billion is a result of DoD (including DARPA) reporting numbers in AI for this reporting cycle. Additionally, DARPA reported numbers in ENIT this cycle that were not reported in the last cycle.

* AI budget: not all AI investments are included in PCA tables, only those directly focused on AI. For a full report on AI R&D investments please see AI R&D Investments.

 

NITRD R&D Budgets: Fiscal Years 1992–2023

Budget ($ in Millions)* : FY00-FY09: Estimates, FY10-FY21: Actual, FY22: Estimate, FY23: Request



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Supplemental Budgets ($ in Millions): Fiscal Years 2021-2023

Budget supplemental figures for FY 2021 and FY 2022 have not been used to calculate changes between the FY 2021 and FY 2022 budget numbers.

FY Budget Agency ACNS AI CHuman CNPS CSP EdW ENIT EHCS HCIA IRAS LSDMA SPSQ TOTALS
2021 Supplemental DoD 25.7 0.0 5.0 0.0 9.9 0.0 0.0 9.9 0.0 0.0 4.9 0.0 55.4
2021 Supplemental NIH 0.0 0.9 10.2 0.0 0.5 2.3 0.0 9.9 9.0 0.0 12.9 3.7 49.4
2021 Supplemental NSF 6.8 4.8 0.8 1.5 1.1 27.8 0.8 0.1 0.4 0.0 2.0 0.0 46.1
2021 Supplemental VA 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4
2021 Supplemental All Agencies 32.9 5.7 16 1.5 11.5 30.1 0.8 19.9 9.4 0.0 19.8 3.7 151.3
2022 Supplemental DoD 27.0 0.0 3.8 0.0 3.2 0.0 0.0 35.0 0.0 4.8 5.0 0.0 78.8
2022 Supplemental NIH 0.0 0.3 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.5 2.0 0.0 2.0 1.0 6.4
2022 Supplemental NOAA 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 90.0 0.0 0.0 10 100.1
2022 Supplemental Treas./ FinCEN 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4
2022 Supplemental VA 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.7
2022 Supplemental All Agencies 28.1 0.4 4.2 0.0 3.2 0.2 0.0 35.5 92.0 4.8 7.0 11.0 186.3

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NITRD Agency Budgets ($ in Millions) for AWN R&D: FYs 2021–2023

Figures in Table below break out those portions of NITRD member agencies’ R&D investments in the LSN PCA that are primarily dedicated to advanced wireless networks. Advanced Wireless Networks (AWN) R&D investments are typically coordinated through NITRD’s WSRD IWG. (The FY2021 Budget Supplement referred to AWN investments as advanced communications networks or ACN.) The FY2021 Supplement was the first time NITRD collected AWN (ACN) R&D numbers; they are not comparable to NITRD budget reporting earlier than in the FY2021 Supplement. Agencies’ budget requests for FY 2023 AWN R&D total $254.3 million, an increase of approximately 9.6 percent compared to the $232.1 million requested for AWN R&D for FY 2022.

FY Budget DARPA DOD/Navy DOE/NNSA DOT/FRA NIST NSF NTIA TOTALS
2021 Actual 27.0 12.3 0.8 0.0 9.0 130.9 10.3 190.2
2021 Supplemental 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.6
2022 Enacted 26.5 12.8 1.6 1.0 8.7 130.2 11.3 192.1
2022 Supplemental 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
2023 Request 39.4 16.7 2.0 0.0 18.8 166.3 11.1 254.3

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Changes to the NITRD PCAs: 2017-2023

  • FY2023: Renaming of Large Scale Networking (LSN) to Advanced Communication Networks and Systems (ACNS), and updates to the definitions of most PCAs.
  • FY2022: Added the Electronics for Networking and Information Technology (ENIT) PCA
  • FY2020: Added the Artificial Intelligence (AI) PCA, including guidance on what R&D areas fall under the AI PCA versus other PCAs.
  • FY2020: Updated the CHuman PCA to remove overlap with the AI PCA and to focus on group/collaborative systems, tools, and studies rather than individuals.
  • FY2020: Updated the SPSQ PCA to reflect the current state of software research.
  • FY2019: All FY2018 PCA definitions were streamlined to a common format for FY2019
  • FY2019: The FY2018 CSIA PCA was updated to explicitly include privacy R&D and renamed to CSP for FY2019
  • FY2019: The FY2018 RIS PCA was renamed to IRAS for FY2019
  • FY2019: The FY2018 SDP PCA was renamed to SPSQ for FY2019
  • FY2018: The FY2017 HCSS PCA was renamed to CNPS in FY2018
  • FY2018: The FY2017 SEW PCA was renamed to EdW in FY2018, and Social Computing aspects of SEW are reported in the CHuman PCA starting in FY2018
  • FY2018: The FY2017 HCI&IM PCA was discontinued; starting in FY2018, HCI activities are reported under CHuman, and IM activities of are reported under LSDMA
  • FY2018: The FY2017 HCIA was renamed to HCIA in FY2018
  • FY2017: The FY2016 HEC R&D PCA has been updated and renamed to EHCS in FY2017
  • FY2017: The FY2016 HEC I&A PCA has been updated and renamed to HCIA in FY2017
  • FY2017: IM aspects of the FY2016 HCI&IM PCA were moved to the new LSDMA PCA in FY2017
  • FY2017: Robotics aspects of the FY2016 HCI&IM and HCSS PCAs were moved to the new RIS PCA in FY2017
  • FY2017: Added the Enabling-R&D for High-Capability Computing Systems (EHCS) PCA
  • FY2017: Added the High-Capability Computing Systems Infrastructure and Applications (HCIA) PCA
  • FY2017: Added the Large-Scale Data Management and Analysis (LSDMA) PCA
  • FY2017: Added the Robotics and Intelligent Systems (RIS) PCA

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