This Data Brief announces the availability of the newly developed Industrial Research and Development Information System (IRIS) on the Division of Science Resources Statistics website (http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/iris/) which is an online interface to the new Survey of Industrial Research and Development Historical Database 1953-1998. The database contains all industrial research and development (R&D) data published by NSF since 1953 in over 2,500 statistical tables including statistics on the levels of R&D support from company and Federal sources and sales and employment of R&D performers.