Federal Aviation REDAC Administration

NAS Ops 

Subcommittee

Mike Gallivan 

March 27, 2018 

R,E&D Budget Status
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Federal Aviation

Administration

FAA FY 2018 Budget

– Congress approved a “Budget Deal”

• Do we have a FY 2018 budget

– No

– Currently Operating under a Continuing Resolution 

• Thru March 23

– FY 2018 overall funding level $1.291 Trillion
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Federal Aviation

Administration

R,E&D FY 2018 Budget

• FY 18 R,E&D Request $150M

– House Appropriation Committee (full committee) 

Introduced to House July 21, 2017

• R,E&D funded at $170M

– Senate Appropriation Committee (full committee) 

Introduced to Senate July 27, 2017

• R,E&D funded at $179M

– Expect Omnibus funding bill in March of 2018
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Federal Aviation

Administration

R,E&D FY 2019 Budget

• The “Budget Deal” did establish an overall 

FY 2019 funding agreement

– $1.32Trillion 2019

– Congressional Hearing and Reports this spring or 

summer

• May have House and Senate Marks for the Summer meeting

– Will provide FY 19 funding range 
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Federal Aviation

Administration

FAA FY 19 Budget

Appropriation FY 19 House Difference Senate Difference

Request Mark Mark

Operations $ 9,931,312,000

Facilities & Equipment $ 2,766,572,000

Research Engineering & 

Development $ 74,406,000

Grants-in-aid for Airports $ 3,350,000,000

Total $ 16,122,290,000 $ - $ - $ - $ -
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Federal Aviation

Administration

FY 19 R,E&D Request

Budget Line Item Program

 FY 2019 

Request 

($000) 

FY 19 

House Mark 

($000)

FY 19 

Request/FY19 

House +/-

 FY 2019 

Senate 

Mark ($000) 

FY 19 

Request/FY19 

Senate +/-

 2019 

Conference 

Mark ($000) 

A11.a. Fire Research and Safety 4,867 (4,867) (4,867) -

A11.b. Propulsion and Fuel Systems 555 (555) (555) -

A11.c. Advanced Materials/Structural Safety 2,300 (2,300) (2,300) -

A11.d. Aircraft Icing /Digital System Safety 7,684 (7,684) (7,684) -

A11.e. Continued Airworthiness 4,969 (4,969) (4,969) -

A11.f. Aircraft Catastrophic Failure Prevention Research - - -

A11.g.

Flightdeck/Maintenance/System Integration Human 

Factors 5,052 (5,052) (5,052) -

A11.h. System Safety Management 799 (799) (799) -

A11.i.

Air Traffic Control/Technical Operations Human 

Factors 1,436 (1,436) (1,436) -

A11.j. Aeromedical Research 3,875 (3,875) (3,875) -

A11.k. Weather Program 6,580 (6,580) (6,580) -

A11.l. Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research 3,318 (3,318) (3,318) -

A11.m. NextGen - Alternative Fuels for General Aviation - - -

Commercial Space 2,500 (2,500) (2,500) -

A12.b. NextGen - Wake Turbulence 3,519 (3,519) (3,519) -

A12.c NextGen - Air Ground Integration Human Factors 1,336 (1,336) (1,336) -

A12.e NextGen - Weather Technology in the Cockpit 1,525 (1,525) (1,525) -

NextGen - Information Security 1,232 (1,232) (1,232)

NextGen - Flight Data Exchange Requirements 1,035 (1,035) (1,035)

A13.a. Environment and Energy 11,588 (11,588) (11,588) -

A13.b.

NextGen - Environmental Research - Aircraft 

Technologies, Fuels, and Metrics 7,578 (7,578) (7,578) -

A14.a. System Planning and Resource Management 1,480 (1,480) (1,480) -

A14.b.

William J. Hughes Technical Center Laboratory 

Facility 1,178 (1,178) (1,178) -

TOTAL 74,406 - (74,406) - (74,406) 0
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Federal Aviation

Administration

R,E&D FY 2020 Budget

• FY 2020 target $74M

• Delivered to OST June 2018

• FY 2020 remaining schedule

– Submit to OMB mid September 

– Submit Presidents request to Congress Feb 4, 2019
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Federal Aviation

Administration

Out Year Targets

• Targets established Jan. 2018

– FY 20 - $74M

– FY 21 - $74M

– FY 22 - $74M

– FY 23 - $74M

– FY 24 - $74M

• Expect targets to change
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Federal Aviation

Administration

FAA Reauthorization

• Current Authorization approved by Congress 

September 28, 2017 which extends 

authorization thru March 31, 2018

• Awaiting congressional action

– Lacking any congressional action expect another 

extension 
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Administration

Budget Future - TBD