New Data on Federal Funding for R&D to Individual U.S. Territories Available for the First Time for FY 2023
Federal obligations for research and experimental development, by U.S. territory and agency: FY 2023
DOD = Department of Defense; DOI = Department of the Interior; HHS = Department of Health and Human Services; NSF = National Science Foundation; USDA = Department of Agriculture.
Note(s):
Because of rounding, detail may not add to total. Other includes data for the Departments of Commerce, Education, Energy, Homeland Security, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, the Treasury, and Veterans Affairs; the Agency for Global Media; the Agency for International Development; the Appalachian Regional Commission; the Consumer Product Safety Commission; the Environmental Protection Agency; the Federal Trade Commission; the Library of Congress; the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund; the Postal Service; the Smithsonian Institution; the Social Security Administration; and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Other areas includes Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Navassa Island, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island.
Source(s):
National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Survey of Federal Funds for Research and Development, FYs 2023–24.
New data from the Survey of Federal Funds for Research and Development for FY 2023 provides disaggregated data on federal obligations for R&D to American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Previously these data were collected in aggregate as other outlying areas. These data from the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), within the U.S. National Science Foundation, show federal agencies obligated $162 million for R&D to all U.S. territories in FY 2023. While relatively small within the federal-wide R&D portfolio of $186 billion, data for the individual territories fulfills data gaps needed for federal policy making. For instance, these data can be used to better estimate gross domestic product for the territories by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. These data also fulfill a request from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to address data gaps regarding statistical data for the U.S. territories (GAO-24-106574). Additional data are available in the full set of data tables at https://ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/federal-funds-research-development/2023-2024.
NCSES has reviewed this product for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information and approved its release (NCSES-DRN25-014).
Suggested citation: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES). 2025. New Data on Federal Funding for R&D to Individual U.S. Territories Available for the First Time for FY 2023. NSF 25-338. Alexandria, VA: U.S. National Science Foundation. Available at https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25338.
NSF 25-338
|May 6, 2025