A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and for the National Science Foundation

Senate Appropriations Committee
   Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
192 Dirksen

05/22/2024 at 09:30AM

Subcommittee hearing.

Chair: Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.)

Witnesses:

  • Bill Nelson, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director, National Science Foundation

The $10.2 billion NSF budget request includes $897.18 million for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, $500.52 million for clean energy technologies, $69.50 million for greenhouse gas tracking research, $30.0 million for the National Discovery Cloud (NDC) for Climate, and $15.0 million for the the Focus On Recruiting Emerging Climate and Adaptation Scientists and Transformers (FORECAST) program.

The $25.38 billion NASA budget request proposes $2.4 billion to fund Earth science and observations that enhance our understanding of the Earth system and continues efforts to make data more accessible and useful to a wide range of stakeholders, including scientists and policymakers. This request also includes over $500 million in Aeronautics to improve aircraft efficiency and reduce the climate impact of aviation.