Advanced manufacturing emphasized in US FY2016 budget request
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Advanced manufacturing emphasized in US FY2016 budget request www.whitehouse.gov/ostp
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n this year’s State of the Union address, President Barack Obama identified examples of research and development (R&D) that directly involve materials research, “I want Americans to win the race for the kinds of discoveries that unleash new jobs—converting sunlight into liquid fuel; creating revolutionary prosthetics….” He said, “Twenty-first century businesses will rely on American science and technology, research and development.” He backed his statements, the following month, with his budget request that includes $146 billion for R&D overall, an $8 billion or 6% increase from 2015 enacted levels. Yet, in terms of the budget for materials R&D, Nabil Bassim—who chairs the Government Affairs Committee (GAC)
of the Materials Research Society (MRS)—defines the funding climate as flat. “It hasn’t been great in the last few years,” he says. However, particularly exciting in this year’s proposal for the materials research community is the administration’s emphasis on advanced manufacturing. “The President focuses on manufacturing, which is reflected in the NIST [National Institute of Standards and Technology] budget request,” says Damon Dozier, Director of Government Affairs at MRS. NIST’s budget request includes $150 million to coordinate the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation across multiple federal departments and agencies and to fund two institutes for five years. Most importantly, the budget proposes a $1.93
Table: Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Request (In millions of US dollars) Request FY 2016
Variance from 2015 Actuals (%)
Department of Defense Army Science and Technology Programs
$12266.6
–13.9
Navy Programs
$2155.3
–1.9
Air Force Programs
$2378.4
+4.2
DARPA
$2972.7
+6.1
$2720
+42.3
$375.3
+3
$325
+16
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate (MPS)
$1336
+2.2
Division of Materials Research (in MPS) Cyber-Enabled Materials, Manufacturing, and Smart Systems
$315.8
+2.9
$257
+13
Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Materials Sciences and Engineering Division (in Office of Science) ARPA-E National Science Foundation
National Institute of Standards and Technology
386
Scientific and Technical Research and Services
$754.7
+11.7
National Network for Manufacturing Innovation
$150
+100
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
$337.3
+3.1
National Nanotechnology Initiative
$1540
0
MRS BULLETIN
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VOLUME 40 • MAY 2015
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www.mrs.org/bulletin
billion one-time mandatory funding to be used in FY 2017 to FY 2024 to complete the network of up to 45 institutes, “where researchers, companies, and entrepreneurs can come together to develop new manufacturing technologies,” according to the NIST budget proposal. According to the White House, the 2016 budget proposal calls for a total of $2.4 billion “for Federal R&D directly supporting advanced manufacturing at [the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the Department
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