In preparation for its markup tomorrow morning, the House Appropriations Committee has released the report that accompanies the FY2027 Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Bill. The report includes details on funding levels provided to the agencies. The report is available here.
NSF
NSF would be funded at $7.0 billion under this bill, a decrease of $1.75 billion below the current level.
The Research and Related Activities account would be funded at $6.44 billion, a decrease of $736 million.
The Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction would receive $172.95 million, which is $78.1 million below the current level.
Although the entire National Science Board has been dismissed, the bill appropriates $3.05 million to the board.
NOAA
The bill appropriates a total of $5.85 billion to NOAA, a cut of $319.8 million.
Within NOAA, activities funded by the Operations, Research, and Facilities account would see a total of $4.69 billion, of which $4.01 billion would be from direct appropriations and $659 million would be from a transfer of funds from the ‘‘Promote and Develop Fishery Products and Research Pertaining to American Fisheries’’ Fund and $28 million from prior year funds.
OAR would be funded at $580.2 million overall. This amount includes $92.5 million for Climate CIs and Labs and $20 million for the RISA program. Sea Grant and Sea Grant Aquaculture would be level funded at $80 million and $14 million, respectively.
As part of the National Ocean Service, the Regional IOOS Observations network would be funded at $56 million.
NASA
NASA would be level funded at $24.44 billion.
The Science Mission Directorate (SMD) would be funded at $6 billion, a cut of $1.25 billion. Within SMD, Earth Science would be funded at $1.325 billion while Planetary Science would see a total of $2.5 billion. Astrophysics and Heliophysics would receive $1.485 billion and $625 million, respectively. Biological and Physical Sciences would see a total of $65 million.
The bill proposes to fund the Space Tech Directorate at $913 million, a cut of $7.5 million, while Aeronautics would be appropriated a total of $850 million, a cut of $85 million.
The Space Grant Program would be level funded at $58 million.
The full House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to take up the bill tomorrow morning. The Senate has yet to take any action on its version.