We receive many questions about the timing of the budget process. The timeline below is intended as a guide to help explain the process from budget formulation to execution.
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FY 2020 PB was released in April 2019. The FY20 President’s Request includes a total of $335.149M for OAR. This is a net decrease of $230.911M (approximately 41 percent) from the FY 2019 enacted levels.
NOAA will focus on three prioritize objectives: fulfilling the Weather Act, Expanding the Blue Economy, and Space Innovation. This request supports OAR’s continued and sustained operations, prioritizes OAR’s core functions and reduces extramural grants. OAR will continue to conduct research that contributes to the climate, weather, and ocean mission of NOAA.
For details on the OAR request, see the NOAA Blue Book and Congressional Submission on the NOAA Budget Office page.
On February 15, 2019, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (Pub.L. 116-6) for FY 2019 was signed into law by President Trump. This provides a total of $5.54B for NOAA. This includes $3,772,477,000 for NOAA Operations, Research and Facilities (ORF) and $1,768,349,000 in Procurement, Acquisition and Construction (PAC).
OAR Operations, Research, and Facilities (ORF) - OAR Climate Research is funded at $159M, a $1M increase from FY 2018 enacted.
Climate Research - OAR Climate Research is funded at $158.0M (equal to FY17 enacted).
Weather and Air Chemistry Research - OAR Weather and Air Chemistry Research is funded at $135.4M, which is a $4M increase from FY 2018 enacted.
Ocean, Coastal and Great Lakes Research - Ocean, Coastal and Great Lakes Research is funded at $218.5M, which is an increase of $12.7M from FY 2018 enacted.
OAR Procurement, Acquisition and Construction (PAC) - Research supercomputing PAC is funded at $41M, which is equal to FY 2018 enacted.
Constituent involvement is essential to OAR's success as we strive to define our priorities and align them with the NOAA Five-Year Research Plan.
We receive many questions about the timing of the budget process. The timeline is intended as a guide to help explain the process from budget formulation to execution.
NOAA Research has updated its Strategic Plan to create a framework aligned with the NOAA 5-year Research & Development Plan released last year.
Read about OAR's $74.7 million investment across four areas, approximately half of which will support extramural investigators.