# OPERATIONS & RESEARCH (GF) $ $ $

**Agency:** Transportation  
**Account:** OPERATIONS & RESEARCH (GF) $ $ $  
**Source document:** NHTSA · p. 1  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/transportation/operations-research-gf  

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

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 223.0 |
| FY2026 | enacted | 200.0 |
| FY2027 | request | 211.9 |

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

FY2027 $22.40B, FY2026 $61.90B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## 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


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Transportation › NHTSA › OPERATIONS & RESEARCH (GF) $ $ $


*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.*