The 2012 Federal Budget provides $2.1 billion for the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), reflecting steady growth in the NNI investment.
The cumulative NNI investment since fiscal year 2001, including the 2012 request, now totals over $16.5 billion. Cumulative investments in nanotechnology-related environmental, health, and safety research since 2005 now total nearly $575 million. Cumulative investments in education and in research on ethical, legal, and other societal dimensions of nanotechnology since 2005 total more than $390 million.
Funding is reported by eight Programs Component Areas (PCAs).
The 2012 NNI budget supports nanoscale science and engineering R&D at 15 agencies. Agencies with the largest investments are:
- Department of Energy (research providing a basis for new and improved energy technologies)
- National Institutes of Health (nanotechnology-based biomedical research at the intersection of life sciences and the physical sciences)
- National Science Foundation (fundamental research across all disciplines of science and engineering)
- Department of Defense (science and engineering research advancing defense and dual-use capabilities)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (fundamental research and development of measurement and fabrication tools, analytical methodologies, and metrology for nanotechnology)
Other agencies investing in mission-related research are the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Department of Transportation (including the Federal Highway Administration), Department of Justice, Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (including the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, and the Forest Service).
The table below presents the requested budget breakdowns by agency since 2009.
| NNI Budget, 2010 - 2011 (dollars in millions) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 Actual | 2011 CR* | 2012 Proposed | ||
| DOE** | 373.8 | 380.8 | 610.6 | |
| HHS/NIH | 456.8 | 456.8 | 464.8 | |
| NSF | 428.7 | 412.1 | 455.9 | |
| DOD*** | 439.6 | 415.4 | 368.2 | |
| DOC/NIST | 114.7 | 95.9 | 115.7 | |
| NASA | 19.7 | 20.1 | 32.3 | |
| EPA | 17.7 | 17.6 | 19.8 | |
| HHS/NIOSH | 8.5 | 9.5 | 16.5 | |
| HHS/FDA | 7.3 | 7.3 | 15.0 | |
| USDA/NIFA | 13.2 | 13.2 | 11.6 | |
| DHS | 21.9 | 12.3 | 10.2 | |
| USDA/FS | 7.1 | 5.0 | 5.0 | |
| CPSC | 0.5 | 2.2 | 2.0 | |
| DOT/FHWA | 3.2 | 2.0 | 2.0 | |
| DOJ | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| TOTAL**** | 1,912.8 | 1,850.3 | 2,129.6 | |
* 2011 levels reflect the annualized amounts provided by the continuing resolution (CR) that extends through March 4, 2011.
** Funding levels for DOE include the combined budgets of the Office of Science, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), the Office of Fossil Energy, and the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E)
*** In the above table, the 2010 and 2011 DOD figures include Congressionally directed funding that is outside the NNI plans ($75 million for 2010).
***** In above table, totals may not add, due to rounding.
| Table 2 NNI Budget History by Agency* (dollars in millions) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agency | 2001 Actual | 2002 Actual | 2003 Actual | 2004 Actual | 2005 Actual | 2006 Actual | 2007 Actual | 2008 Actual | 2009 Actual |
| DOD | 125 | 224 | 220 | 291 | 352 | 424 | 450 | 460 | 459.0 |
| NSF | 150 | 204 | 221 | 256 | 335 | 360 | 389 | 409 | 408.6 |
| DOE | 88 | 89 | 134 | 202 | 208 | 231 | 236 | 245 | 332.6 |
| DHHS (NIH) | 40 | 59 | 78 | 106 | 165 | 192 | 215 | 305 | 342.8 |
| DOC (NIST) | 33 | 77 | 64 | 77 | 79 | 78 | 88 | 86 | 93.4 |
| NASA | 22 | 35 | 36 | 47 | 45 | 50 | 20 | 17 | 13.7 |
| EPA | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 11.6 |
| USDA (NIFA) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 9.9 | ||
| DHHS (NIOSH) | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 6.7 | ||||
| USDA (FS) | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5.4 | |||||
| DOJ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | .3 | 2 | 0 | 1.2 |
| DHS | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9.1 | |
| DOT (FHWA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.9 | |||||
| TOTAL | 464 | 697 | 760 | 989 | 1200 | 1351 | 1,425 | 1,554 | 1,694.9 |
*Totals may not add up due to rounding
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Fonte: Nano.Gov
