Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Administration Research and Development Budget Priorities and Cross-Cutting Actions
For FY2027, the five R&D budgetary priorities in this memorandum will ensure that America secures its position as the unrivaled world leader in critical and emerging technologies, including AI and quantum information S&T. Additional priorities will advance and secure America’s leadership in energy, national security, health and biotechnology, and space. Across the Federal R&D budget, agencies should prioritize the physical, biological, and engineering sciences to accelerate technological innovation and strengthen national capabilities.
This memorandum also describes five high-priority crosscutting actions. These actions will revitalize America’s S&T enterprise, unleashing researchers to achieve groundbreaking discoveries. These crosscutting actions underpin the five R&D budgetary priorities and ensure agencies advance scientific progress and technological innovation to fuel economic growth and improve the lives of all Americans.Start: 2026-10-01 End: 2027-09-30 Publication Date: 2025-09-23
Organization: Executive Office of the President (EOP)
Russell T. VoughtMichael J. KratsiosSubmitter: Owen Ambur (Owen.Ambur@verizon.net)
Unrivaled American leadership in science, technology, and space.
To set clear R&D priorities and cross-cutting actions that align incentives, focus investments, and translate public research into strategic advantage and improved quality of life.
Values
Goal 1:
Ensure unrivaled American leadership in critical and emerging technologies and the enabling digital and physical infrastructure.
Objective 1.1:
Invest in novel AI paradigms and architectures; improve interpretability, controllability, robustness, and security; accelerate scientific discovery and applied uses including energy, quantum, space analytics, navigation, and embodied systems; advance evaluation methods and publish structured datasets.
Objective 1.2:
Advance fundamental quantum science; mature enabling technologies and engineering; expand infrastructure, testbeds, and advanced manufacturing; support pre-competitive R&D and centers.
Objective 1.3:
Strengthen leadership and supply resilience via materials, devices, designs, software, and coordinated access to fabrication and characterization tools to ensure trusted and assured microelectronics.
Objective 1.4:
Advance 5G, 6G, and beyond; apply AI to wireless systems, spectrum sharing, cybersecurity; develop secure and trusted applications and resilient space-based communication networks.
Objective 1.5:
Integrate computing, software, and data from exascale to edge; invest in testbeds, infrastructure, prototypes, and experimental systems; pursue resource-sharing models and public–private consortia.
Objective 1.6:
Accelerate next-generation methods including additive manufacturing, robotics, and automation; improve efficiency and security with cybersecurity, digital twins, and AI; shorten materials discovery-to-insertion timelines.
Goal 2:
Unleash American energy dominance and explore new frontiers in polar regions and oceans to enhance prosperity and security.
Objective 2.1:
Prioritize affordable, reliable, secure energy including fossil, advanced nuclear fission and fusion, geothermal, and hydropower; support advanced reactors and fuel cycle R&D; advance critical mineral discovery and processing; leverage private-sector commercialization and user facilities.
Objective 2.2:
Invest in Arctic observation, prediction, and infrastructure for national interests and resident prosperity; sustain and strengthen Antarctic research infrastructure and leadership.
Objective 2.3:
Deploy technologies and partnerships to map, explore, and characterize marine resources; expand data management capacity including for deep-sea mining contexts.
Goal 3:
Strengthen American security through targeted R&D for strategic competitiveness and resilience.
Objective 3.1:
Develop hypersonics, unmanned and autonomous systems, resilient space systems, and modernized nuclear deterrent; advance AI-enabled ISR and autonomous, responsive space architectures.
Objective 3.2:
Invest in sensing, sensemaking, trusted autonomy, space maneuverability, directed energy, advanced materials, and scalable systems to reduce risk and enhance homeland missile defense capabilities.
Objective 3.3:
Improve anticipation, prevention, response, and recovery across hazards including cyber and electromagnetic threats, supply chains, power grids, airspace, biological threats, and severe terrestrial and space weather.
Objective 3.4:
Advance resilience and readiness for post-quantum cryptography; leverage novel datasets and AI applications to enhance defensive posture.
Goal 4:
Strengthen and safeguard American health, biosafety, biosecurity, and domestic biomanufacturing.
Objective 4.1:
Fund gold-standard science driving prevention and treatment of chronic, metabolic, neurodegenerative, autoimmune, oncologic, rare, and undiagnosed diseases; bolster plant and animal health and food safety; apply next-generation omics and AI.
Objective 4.2:
Enhance detection, response, and mitigation of biological threats; advance function-based screening for pathogenicity and toxicity; ensure unequivocal adherence to standards.
Objective 4.3:
Develop modular and scalable platforms with clear lab-to-market pathways; leverage feedstocks and biofoundry infrastructure to secure supply chains and create jobs.
Goal 5:
Assure America's continued leadership in space through ambitious civilian and national security R&D.
Objective 5.1:
Build capacity for missions to the Moon and Mars; support long-duration travel and habitation, in-space assembly, in-situ resource utilization, space weather prediction, and space nuclear power and biotechnologies.
Objective 5.2:
Unlock transformative capabilities including novel sensing modalities, near-Earth environment forecasting, radiation belt remediation, precision standards, and advanced power and propulsion.
Objective 5.3:
Leverage rideshares, hosted payloads, signals of opportunity, and new business models to expand science and reduce costs.
Goal 6:
Implement agency guidance to restore gold-standard scientific practice and stewardship.
Objective 6.1:
Support replication studies and statistical validation alongside breakthrough programs.
Objective 6.2:
Categorize funding as basic research, applied research, or experimental development per OMB A-11 in performance reporting.
Objective 6.3:
Develop publicly accessible databases and sharing platforms; streamline administrative burdens in grants and research.
Goal 7:
Build the science and technology workforce of the future with lifelong STEM pathways.
Stakeholder(s):
Objective 7.1:
Expand access to high-quality STEM education in collaboration with private, nonprofit, and state and local partners.
Objective 7.2:
Prioritize programs across learning stages to prepare Americans for emerging technology careers.
Objective 7.3:
Invest in programs that utilize AI and other technologies to support students and teachers.
Goal 8:
Expand and make accessible world-class research infrastructure across tools, facilities, and data.
Objective 8.1:
Invest in tools, testbeds, prototyping, and qualification facilities with broad access including small colleges and businesses.
Objective 8.2:
Advance computation, datasets, and communications infrastructure underpinning emerging technologies and gold-standard practice.
Objective 8.3:
Expand autonomous experimentation facilities and share new research paradigms.
Goal 9:
Revitalize and strengthen the multisector science and technology ecosystem.
Objective 9.1:
Ease administrative and regulatory burdens for federal technology transfer to increase private investment.
Objective 9.2:
Fund cooperative projects, consortia, and philanthropic engagement to accelerate entrepreneurship and innovation.
Objective 9.3:
Increase collaboration via the National Science and Technology Council and leverage whole-of-government efforts.
Objective 9.4:
Make agency-generated or funded data discoverable, accessible, and usable consistent with law and policy.
Objective 9.5:
Institutionalize risk-based, data-driven protection practices to prevent theft, diversion, and exploitation by strategic competitors.
Goal 10:
Focus on high-value research aligned with core agency missions and meaningful outcomes.
Objective 10.1:
Align funding with mission purposes and concentrate on promising research.
Objective 10.2:
Consolidate and manage programs as necessary to focus research and adapt to funding levels.
Objective 10.3:
Emphasize research that produces meaningful, measurable outcomes for the American people.