On Thursday, the Trump Administration released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Administration Research and Development Budget Priorities and Cross-Cutting Actions Document. The document, signed by OMB Director Russ Vought and OSTP Director Michael Krastios, outlines the administration’s research priorities, describing its mission to align the government’s “role in the S&T enterprise to once again drive R&D that is bold, mission-driven, and unapologetically in service of the American people.”
Vought and Krastios list 5 top administration priorities in the coming fiscal year. The priorities are to:
- Ensure Unrivaled American Leadership in Critical and Emergin Technologies
- Unleash American Energy Dominance and Explore New Frontiers
- Strengthen American Security
- Strengthen and Safeguard American Health and Biotechnology
- Assure America’s Continued Space Dominance
The memorandum also describes the administration’s intent to undertake a number of crosscutting actions to “usher in the Golden Age of American Innovation.” These include:
- Implementing and Supporting Gold Standard Science
- Building the S&T Workforce of the Future
- Expanding and Making Accessible World-Class Research Infrastructure
- Revitalizing and Strengthening America’s S&T Ecosystem
- Focusing on High-Value Research Efforts.
Specifics regarding each priority can be found in the document linked above.