January 2023 Washington InfO

Congress Passes FY 2023 Funding Legislation

At the end of 2022, Congress passed its annual spending package, providing $1.7 trillion in funding across federal agencies for fiscal year (FY) 2023.  The appropriations legislation comes nearly three months late and follows a series of continuing resolutions that extended FY 2022 spending levels to the end of December.  Overall, the final spending package would increase funding for several major programs of interest to the research and education communities.
In total, NSF would see its budget grow by $1.04 billion or 12 percent above the FY 2022 enacted levels when including supplemental funding.  The funding would go largely to support NSF’s research directorates and provide a significant boost to the STEM Education Directorate (EDU), previously known as the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR).  EDU would receive 1.4 billion in FY 2023, $365 million or 36.3 percent above the FY 2022 level.  NSF research into emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, would receive $686 million.  Last year’s passage of the CHIPS and Science Act, which set authorized funding levels for major science programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other agencies, has not been forgotten by lawmakers.  NSF is set to receive $335 million specifically to fund implentation of various science programs included in the CHIPS and Science ACT, with a total of $1 billion provided for for CHIPS-related activites.

Elsewhere, the bill will fund research and programs at the Department of Justice, including $663 million for the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office, an increase of $151 million over last year.  The COPS Office provides resources to state and local law enforcement agencies to improve operations and community engagement.  In 2022, SIOP signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the COPS Office to provide I-O expertise and ensure awardees are informed of I-O psychology findings and practices.  A full analysis of the package is available here.