Federal AviationAdministration

REDAC Env. & Energy Subcommittee

Mike Gallivan

March 25, 2014

R&D Budget Status

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R,E&D FY 14 Budget
        - R,E&D FY 14 Budget Request - $166.0M
        - FY 14 Appropriation $158.792 
        - Signed Jan. 17, 2014
        - Safety - $87.244
        - Improve Efficiency - $24.329
        - Reduce Environmental Impacts - $41.579
        - Mission Support - $5.640

13 time in 22 years that budget has been enacted in first quarter of the fiscal year

Just twice in 20 years has the budget been enacted on September 30th or before (the FY 95 and FY 97 budgets)

HR 3547 signed by President Jan 7 2014

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FY 14 R,E&D Request

Biggest Impact is moving JPDO activities to OPS

Adding Commercial Space COE to NextGen Air Ground Human Factors

NextGen Environment & Energy plus up of $8M

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FY 14 Conference Language
        - Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS).-The agreement includes funding in the "Unmanned Aircraft Systems" activity to complete the establishment of a UAS center of excellence to  provide recommendations for airspace designation for manned and unmanned flight operations, conduct research to support UAS interagency requirements, coordinate research and development activities with other agencies, and provide recommendations on aircraft certifications. 
        - Joint Planning and Development Office.-The agreement does not include funding for the Joint Planning and Development Office. Funding is provided in the operations account to absorb personnel and activities from this office into the "NextGen and operations planning" activity.
        - Commercial Space Center of Excellence.-The agreement includes $1,000,000 above the budget request in the "NextGen: Air Ground Integration" activity for further development of a commercial space center of excellence. Funding for this activity was requested in the operations account, but it is included in this account to be consistent with other FAA centers of excellence. 
        - Alternative Fuels Center of Excellence.-The agreement includes $5,000,000 in the "NextGen: Environmental Research" activity to establish a center of excellence for alternative jet fuel  research

Eliminates the JPDO – “the FAA has failed to establish a clearly defined role for the JPDO and set expectations for how it will leverage research conducted at other Federal agencies , including the NASA, DOD, Dept. of Commerce, and Dept. of Homeland Security

The House has been very supportive of the NextGen Alternative Fuels for General Aviation.  FY 12 and FY 13 reports had supportive language as well

House Mark increased the NextGen Environmental research by $3M

Supportive of the COE concept.

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FAA FY 2015 Budget Request

In FY 15 RE&D is approximately 1% of the FAA budget request

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FY 15 R,E&D Request

No new programs this year – 

JPDO was obviously not included in request 

Nor was NextGen – Advanced Systems and Software Validation just due to prioritization

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F&E Portfolio FY 15

The NextGen Activity 1 in F&E took a big hit due to lower F&E  overall funding

	Always a balancing act between Legacy programs and NextGen

	Then a balancing act between implementing NextGen and the new NextGen Activities

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FY 15 Congressional Issues
        - House and Senate working from the same base 
        - $1,013,628,000,000 Base
        - $492,000,000,000 Discretionary Funding
        - Debt Ceiling not an issue for FY 15 Budget Request
        - Sequestration not an issue for FY 15 Budget Request
        - Election for House and Senate seats 
        - Sequestration may/will be an issue in FY 16

FY 15 both the House and Senate are working from the same base 

The normal political process, may affect the process

	Who will win what seats

	Big issue may be the distribution between the defense budget and non defense 

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R,E&D FY 16 Budget Status
        - R,E&D FY 16 OST Budget Request $160M
        - OST Submission early June 2014
        - OMB Submission early Sept. 2014
        - Scheduled date of FY 16 budget presented to Congress February 2, 2015

Once the budget goes to OST it is goes from planning process  to being reviewed and can not be discussed.

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Out Year Targets
        - Targets established February 2014
        - FY 16 - $160M
        - FY 17 - $164M
        - FY 18 - $167M
        - FY 19 - $171M
        - FY 20 - $175M
        - Expect targets to change

We get new funding levels typically the second week of January.  This will effect the development of the FY 16 budget This number may change as we go thru the review process

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FAA Reauthorization
        - Current Authorization thru FY 2015
        - FAA has stared work on its proposed reauthorized bill
        - Will have to go thru OST and OMB 

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Budget Future
        - It is unclear regarding funding levels after FY 16

It is a Rocky path or steep clime 

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