The FY2027 President's Budget requests $211.9M for OPERATIONS & RESEARCH (GF) $ $ $, within Transportation's OPERATIONS & RESEARCH (GF) $ $ $ account. That is up 5.9% on the FY2026 figure of $200.0M, which is the enacted appropriation.
FY2025–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $223.0M |
| FY2026 | enacted | $200.0M |
| FY2027 | request | $211.9M |
Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Transportation 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 Transportation's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
Appropriations, Obligation Limitations, and Exempt Obligations The Operations and Research account supports Vehicle Safety programs and activities that reduce highway fatalities, prevent injuries, and reduce their associated economic toll by developing, setting, and enforcing Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS). This account supports activities to root out safety-related defects in motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment. These programs also set and enforce fuel economy standards for motor vehicles. NHTSA conducts research for cutting-edge technologies, including complex safety-critical electronic control systems; vehicle cybersecurity; and new emerging Automated Driving System technologies. Additional research areas include biomechanics and heavy vehicles safety technologies. Finally, NHTSA leverages this funding to collect and analyze crash data to identify safety trends and Exhibit III-1a: Summary of Analysis of Changes
Extracted from NHTSA, p. 1. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
Contracts funded by this line
254 linked contracts. These are obligations — lifetime awarded money — and they are not comparable to the request above and are never added to it. No total is shown: an award linked to several lines is counted in full on each, so the sum would not be a fact.
| Contract | Vendor | Confidence | Obligated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 693JJ921C000011 last action FY2025 | KLD ASSOCIATES INC | Certain | $110.0M |
| DTNH2216F00079 last action FY2024 | SVD STARS II, LLC | Certain | $77.7M |
| 693JJ922F000011 last action FY2023 | STRATACOMM, LLC | Certain | $60.4M |
| DTNH2216F00082 last action FY2023 | ADVANCED QUALITY ALLIANCE, LLC | Certain | $54.1M |
| 693JJ919F000031 last action FY2024 | STRATACOMM, LLC | Certain | $53.8M |
| DTNH2215C00030 last action FY2025 | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | Certain | $44.4M |
| 693JJ920F000017 last action FY2024 | STRATACOMM, LLC | Certain | $40.1M |
| 693JJ922F00008N last action FY2025 | SPATIAL FRONT INC | Certain | $39.1M |
Showing 8 of 254 — most confidently matched first, largest within a confidence tier. These are not necessarily the largest 8.
Confidence mix · 254 certain
Linked contracts are a floor, not a census. Coverage is bounded by how distinctively a program is named and, for performer links, to RDT&E and Procurement — O&M and military construction publish no performers. Budget figures are FY2027 request dollars; contract figures are obligations. The two measure different things and must never be summed together.
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