Funding
The 2010 Budget provides $1.6 billion for the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), reflecting steady growth in the NNI investment.
The cumulative NNI investment since 2001, including the 2010 request, now totals almost $12 billion. Cumulative investments in EHS research since 2005 now total over $350 million. Cumulative investments in education and in research on ethical, legal, and other societal dimensions of nanotechnology since 2005 total over $220 million.
The 2010 NNI budget supports nanoscale science and engineering R&D at 13 agencies. Agencies with the largest investments are:
• NSF (fundamental research across all disciplines of science and engineering)
• DOD (science and engineering research advancing defense and dual-use capabilities)
• DOE (research providing a basis for new and improved energy technologies)
• NIH (nanotechnology-based biomedical research at the intersection of life sciences and the physical sciences)
• NIST (fundamental research and development of measurement and fabrication tools, analytical methodologies, and metrology for nanotechnology)
Other agencies investing in mission-related research are NASA, NIOSH, EPA, USDA (including both CSREES and FS), DHS, DOJ, and DOT (including the Federal Highway Administration, FHWA).Other Resources
See the budget supplement: NNI FY 2010 Budget.
See 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act.
NNI Budget Overview by Agency
The table below presents the requested budget breakdowns by agency.
Table 1 NNI Budget, 2008 - 2010 (dollars in millions) |
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2008 Actual | 2009 Estimate | 2009 Recovery* | 2010 Proposed |
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DOD** |
460 |
464 |
379 |
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NSF |
409 |
397 |
108 |
423 |
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DOE*** |
245 |
337 |
25 |
351 |
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DHHS (NIH) **** |
305 |
311 |
326 |
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DOC (NIST) |
86 |
87 |
7 |
91 |
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NASA |
17 |
17 |
17 |
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EPA |
12 |
16 |
18 |
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DHHS (NIOSH) |
7 |
7 |
12 |
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USDA (FS) |
5 |
5 |
5 |
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USDA (CSREES) |
6 |
3 |
3 |
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DOJ |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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DHS |
3 |
9 |
12 |
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DOT (FHWA) |
1 |
3 |
3 |
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TOTAL ***** |
1,554 |
1,657 |
140 |
1,640 |
*Based on preliminary allocations of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-5) appropriations. These figures may change. Other NNI agencies with ARRA funding, but not listed in the table, are in the process of determining their allocations.
** In Table 1, the 2008 and 2009 DOD figures include Congressionally directed funding that is outside the NNI plan ($117 million for 2009).
*** Funding levels for DOE include the Office of Science and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
**** NIH recently unveiled the Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC) system, a new knowledge management system designed to provide more consistent and transparent information to the public about NIH research. The shift to the RCDC process of categorization changes the way individual research projects are assigned to categories. This change will result in some differences in total dollar amounts between the 2008 reports and those issued in previous years. Any difference, whether an increase or decrease in funding levels, does not necessarily reflect a change in the amount of money the NIH received from Congress or a change in the actual content of the NIH research portfolio. For more information about the RCDC process and some of the factors that might contribute to the differences between the previously reported and new RCDC-generated funding levels, please go to: http://report.nih.gov/rcdc/category_process/Default.aspx and http://report.nih.gov/rcdc/reasons /default.aspx.
***** For Tables 1–2, totals may not add, due to rounding.
NNI Budget History by Agency
Table 2 NNI Budget History by Agency* (dollars in millions) | ||||||||
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Agency |
2001
Actual |
2002 Actual | 2003 Actual | 2004 Actual | 2005 Actual | 2006 Actual | 2007 Actual | 2008 Actual |
DOD |
125 |
224 |
220 |
291 |
352 |
424 |
450 | 460 |
NSF |
150 |
204 |
221 |
256 |
335 |
360 |
389 | 409 |
DOE |
88 |
89 |
134 |
202 |
208 |
231 |
236 | 245 |
DHHS (NIH) |
40 |
59 |
78 |
106 |
165 |
192 |
215 | 305 |
DOC(NIST) |
33 |
77 |
64 |
77 |
79 |
78 |
88 | 86 |
NASA |
22 |
35 |
36 |
47 |
45 |
50 |
20 | 17 |
EPA |
5 |
6 |
5 |
5 |
7 |
5 |
8 | 12 |
USDA (CREES) |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
4 | 7 | ||
DHHS (NIOSH) |
3 |
4 |
7 | 5 | ||||
USDA (FS) |
2 |
3 | 6 | |||||
DOJ |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
.3 |
2 | 0 |
DHS |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 | 3 | |
DOT(FHWA) |
1 |
1 | 1 | |||||
TOTAL |
464 |
697 |
760 |
989 |
1200 |
1351 |
1,425 | 1,554 |
*Totals may not add up due to rounding.
Acronyms
DHS — Department of Homeland Security
DOC — Department of Commerce
DOD — Department of Defense
DOE — Department of Energy
DHHS— Department of Health and Human Services
DOJ — Department of Justice
DOT — Department of Transportation
EPA — Environmental Protection Agency
FHWA — Federal Highway Administration
NASA— National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NIH — National Institutes of Health
NIST— National Institute of Standards and Technology
NSF — National Science Foundation
TSA — Transportation Security Administration
USDA — U.S. Department of Agriculture