# Exploratory Measurement Reasearch

**Agency:** Commerce  
**Account:** Scientific and Technical Research and Services 1/  
**Source document:** National Institute of Standards and Technology · p. 15  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/commerce/exploratory-measurement-reasearch  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2026 | enacted | 25.4 |
| FY2027 | request | 20.0 |

## Commerce discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $7.00B, FY2026 $11.90B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## 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.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Commerce › National Institute of Standards and Technology › Scientific and Technical Research and Services 1/ › Exploratory Measurement Reasearch


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*