Department of Defense

AAU urges Congress to provide at least $2.436 billion for Department of Defense (DOD) 6.1 basic research in FY19.

This document summarizes the FY18 Omnibus funding bill for federal agencies and programs of interest to research universities.

Department of Defense Research Funding Table FY18

Status of FY18 appropriations including House and Senate allocations for AAU's funding priorities.

Coalition for National Security Research (CNSR), of which AAU is a member, sent a letter to House and Senate appropriators urging Congress to robustly fund the Department of Defense science and technology program for FY18.

An overview of the President's proposed budget for FY19, including summaries and analyses for individual agencies.

The Coalition for National Security Research (CNSR), sent a letter urging Congress to begin negotiations on a bipartisan budget agreement to raise the discretionary budget caps.

AAU joins the Energy Sciences Coalition in a statement supporting bipartisan efforts to reauthorize ARPA-E at the Department of Energy.

The Coalition for National Security Research (CNSR) wrote to the Senate Committee on Armed Services in support of the committee's focus on basic research in S.1519, the National Defense Authorization Act for FY18.

Multiple coalitions urged members of the 115th Congress to pass a bipartisan budget agreement that increases the spending caps for both defense and non-defense discretionary programs.