The FY2027 President's Budget requests $173.0M for Major Res. Equip. & Fac. Construction, within National Science Foundation's Total, NSF Discretionary Funding account. That is down 31% on the FY2026 figure of $251.0M, which is the enacted appropriation.
FY2026–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | enacted | $251.0M |
| FY2027 | request | $173.0M |
Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
National Science Foundation 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 National Science Foundation's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
Funds the acquisition, construction, and commissioning of major multi-user research facilities and larger mid-scale research infrastructure that provide unique, cutting-edge capabilities at the frontiers of science and engineering.
Extracted from National Science Foundation, p. 23. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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