The FY2027 President's Budget requests $20.0M for Exploratory Measurement Reasearch, within Commerce's Scientific and Technical Research and Services 1/ account. That is down 21% on the FY2026 figure of $25.4M, which is the enacted appropriation.
FY2026–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | enacted | $25.4M |
| FY2027 | request | $20.0M |
Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Commerce discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Commerce's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
Funds NIST's Exploratory Measurement Research and Development, which invests through the Innovation in Mission-driven Science program in higher-risk, potentially transformative projects to grow new capabilities in emerging, high-impact research areas.
Extracted from National Institute of Standards and Technology, p. 15. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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