NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION FY 2020 Budget Request to Congress March 18, 2019 ii FY 2020 NSF Budget Request to Congress NOTES Numbers in the tables and figures may not add up to totals because of rounding. Amounts for FY 2019 were not available at the time this Budget Request was published. Common Acronyms Used in Budget Request to Congress Appropriation Accounts • AOAM - Agency Operations and Award Management • EHR - Education and Human Resources • MREFC - Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction • NSB - National Science Board • OIG - Office of Inspector General • R&RA - Research and Related Activities Directorates and offices • BFA - Office of Budget, Finance, and Award Management • BIO - Directorate for Biological Sciences • CISE - Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering • ENG - Directorate for Engineering • EHR - Directorate for Education and Human Resources • GEO - Directorate for Geosciences • MPS - Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences • SBE - Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences • OIRM - Office of Information and Resource Management • OISE - Office of International Science and Engineering • OPP - Office of Polar Programs • OIA - Office of Integrative Activities [organizational unit] • IA - Integrative Activities [budget activity] NSF Big Ideas Convergence Accelerator • NSF C-Accel - NSF Convergence Accelerator Research Big Ideas • HDR - Harnessing the Data Revolution for 21st-Century Science and Engineering • FW-HTF - The Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier • NNA - Navigating the New Arctic • QL - The Quantum Leap: Leading the Next Quantum Revolution • URoL - Understanding the Rules of Life: Predicting Phenotype • WoU - Windows on the Universe: The Era of Multi-messenger Astrophysics Enabling Big Ideas • GCR - Growing Convergence Research at NSF • Mid-scale RI - Mid-scale Research Infrastructure • NSF INCLUDES - Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science • NSF 2026 - NSF 2026: Seeding Innovation iii Notes NSF-Wide Investments • GRFP - Graduate Research Fellowship Program • INFEWS - Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems • IUSE - Improving Undergraduate STEM Education • I-Corps™ - NSF Innovation Corps • NRT - NSF Research Traineeship • SaTC - Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace • UtB - Understanding the Brain • BRAIN Initiative - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative National Science and Technology Council Crosscuts: • NITRD - Networking and Information Technology Research and Development • NNI - National Nanotechnology Initiative • USGCRP - U.S. Global Change Research Program Other Frequently Used Acronyms • STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics • R&D - Research and Development iv NSF FY 2020 BUDGET REQUEST TO CONGRESS TABLE OF CONTENTS OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................................ Overview - 1 SUMMARY TABLES ................................................................................................ Summary Tables - 1 Total NSF Funding: NSF Summary Table.......................................................................................... Summary Tables - 3 NSF Funding Profile .......................................................................................... Summary Tables - 4 Number of People Involved in NSF Activities .................................................. Summary Tables - 5 NSF Budget Requests and Appropriations by Account: FY 2000-FY 2020 ....................................................................................... Summary Tables - 7 Major NSF-wide Investments: Convergence Accelerators and NSF’s 10 Big Ideas .......................................... Summary Tables - 8 NSF Selected Crosscutting Programs ................................................................ Summary Tables - 9 NSF NSTC Crosscuts Summary ...................................................................... Summary Tables - 10 National Nanotechnology Initiative ................................................................. Summary Tables - 11 Networking and Information Technology R&D .............................................. Summary Tables - 12 U.S. Global Change Research Program ........................................................... Summary Tables - 13 NSF Programs to Broaden Participation .......................................................... Summary Tables - 14 STEM Education Investments: NSF Education and Human Resources Funding by Division and Program ..... Summary Tables - 18 CoSTEM Inventory and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs by Level of Education ............................................................................... Summary Tables - 20 Research Infrastructure: NSF Research Infrastructure Funding by Account and Activity ..................... Summary Tables - 22 NSF Research Infrastructure Summary ........................................................... Summary Tables - 23 NSF AUTHORIZATIONS ............................................................................................ Authorizations - 1 NSF Current Authorizations ................................................................................. Authorizations - 3 Computer Science Education Research Report in Compliance with Public Law 114-329 ............................................................................... Authorizations - 6 EPSCoR Report in Compliance with Public Law 114-329 .................................. Authorizations - 9 RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES ........................................................................... R&RA - 1 Biological Sciences ...................................................................................................................... BIO - 1 Molecular and Cellular Biosciences ...................................................................................... BIO - 8 Integrative Organismal Systems ............................................................................................ BIO - 9 Environmental Biology ........................................................................................................ BIO - 10 Biological Infrastructure ...................................................................................................... BIO - 11 Emerging Frontiers .............................................................................................................. BIO - 12 Computer and Information Science and Engineering .......................................................... CISE - 1 Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure .............................................................................. CISE - 8 Computing and Communication Foundations ..................................................................... CISE - 9 Computer and Network Systems ....................................................................................... CISE - 10 v Information and Intelligent Systems .................................................................................. CISE - 11 Information Technology Research ..................................................................................... CISE - 12 Appendix A: Advanced Computing Portfolio ................................................................... CISE - 13 Engineering ............................................................................................................................... ENG - 1 Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems .................................. ENG - 10 Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation ............................................................. ENG - 11 Electrical, Communications, and Cyber Systems ............................................................... ENG - 12 Engineering Education and Centers .................................................................................... ENG - 13 Industrial Innovation and Partnerships ............................................................................... ENG - 15 Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities ......................................................... ENG - 16 Geosciences ................................................................................................................................ GEO - 1 Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences .................................................................................... GEO - 5 Earth Sciences ....................................................................................................................... GEO - 6 Integrative and Collaborative Education and Research ........................................................ GEO - 7 Ocean Sciences ..................................................................................................................... GEO - 8 Mathematical and Physical Sciences ...................................................................................... MPS - 1 Astronomical Sciences ........................................................................................................ MPS - 10 Chemistry ............................................................................................................................ MPS - 12 Materials Research .............................................................................................................. MPS - 14 Mathematical