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Table 4. Federally financed R&D expenditures at federally funded research and development centers, by federal agency and FFRDC: FY 2016

(Dollars in thousands)

FFRDC All federal R&D expenditures DOD DOE HHS DHS DOT NASA NSF Other
All FFRDCs 18,855,593 4,194,659 9,849,051 867,042 504,086 162,645 2,013,307 244,042 1,020,761
University-administered FFRDCs 5,529,238 965,299 2,180,767 42,562 111,799 11,400 1,883,829 235,631 97,951
Ames Laboratory 46,190 0 45,926 0 0 0 0 0 264
Argonne National Laboratory 704,100 18,000 619,100 16,000 30,000 2,095 282 0 18,623
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 322,196 0 322,148 0 0 0 0 48 0
Jet Propulsion Laboratory 1,852,369 0 0 0 0 0 1,852,369 0 0
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 741,250 13,365 691,527 22,000 5,374 153 2,786 151 5,894
Lincoln Laboratory 942,049 850,050 1,435 0 29,032 0 20,080 0 41,452
National Center for Atmospheric Research 155,584 7,732 6,319 503 179 9,152 6,965 114,175 10,559
National Optical Astronomy Observatory 21,890 0 515 0 0 0 0 20,878 497
National Radio Astronomy Observatory 87,649 1,428 0 0 0 0 364 85,857 0
National Solar Observatory 11,821 0 0 0 0 0 0 11,821 0
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 81,187 0 79,985 0 0 0 761 429 12
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory 300,207 0 295,817 1,853 0 0 129 2,264 144
Software Engineering Institute 145,725 74,650 1,147 2,206 47,214 0 2 0 20,506
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility 117,021 74 116,848 0 0 0 91 8 0
Nonprofit-administered FFRDCs 6,019,726 2,155,150 2,531,910 172,098 244,255 147,523 78,039 8,411 682,340
Aerospace Federally Funded Research and Development Center 905,468 818,676 6,111 0 2,643 563 39,303 751 37,421
Arroyo Center 44,616 44,616 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Brookhaven National Laboratory 563,400 366 510,612 13,308 1,339 0 9,818 0 27,957
Center for Advanced Aviation System Development 137,578 0 0 0 0 137,578 0 0 0
Center for Communications and Computing 61,625 61,625 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Center for Enterprise Modernization 146,432 0 0 0 0 0 323 0 146,109
Center for Naval Analyses 84,232 84,232 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Center for Nuclear Waste Regulatory Analyses 7,583 0 20 0 0 0 0 18 7,545
CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare 141,860 0 0 141,860 0 0 0 0 0
Homeland Security Studies and Analysis Institute 22,038 0 0 0 22,038 0 0 0 0
Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute 101,628 0 0 0 101,628 0 0 0 0
Judiciary Engineering and Modernization Centera 9,289 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9,289
National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center 32,902 0 0 0 32,902 0 0 0 0
National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence 13,076 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13,076
National Defense Research Institute 62,848 58,311 0 0 2,722 0 43 0 1,772
National Renewable Energy Laboratory 337,017 5,144 308,667 0 597 563 44 0 22,002
National Security Engineering Center 966,404 775,707 382 0 1,032 0 148 0 189,135
Oak Ridge National Laboratory 1,251,237 34,010 1,027,700 4,225 19,632 8,819 27,077 0 129,774
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 904,289 53,718 678,418 12,705 59,722 0 1,283 183 98,260
Project Air Force 49,165 49,165 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Science and Technology Policy Institute 7,459 0 0 0 0 0 0 7,459 0
Systems and Analyses Center 169,580 169,580 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Industry-administered FFRDCs 7,306,629 1,074,210 5,136,374 652,382 148,032 3,722 51,439 0 240,470
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research 642,165 0 0 641,014 0 0 0 0 1,151
Idaho National Laboratory 504,245 30,252 405,089 0 30,667 0 474 0 37,763
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 1,326,375 171,445 1,113,610 2,120 30,797 0 1,253 0 7,150
Los Alamos National Laboratory 1,962,000 42,000 1,760,000 7,000 20,000 0 45,000 0 88,000
Sandia National Laboratories 2,745,963 822,393 1,754,802 2,248 61,440 3,722 4,712 0 96,646
Savannah River National Laboratory 125,881 8,120 102,873 0 5,128 0 0 0 9,760
DOD = Department of Defense; DOE = Department of Energy; DHS = Department of Homeland Security; DOT = Department of Transportation; FFRDC = federally funded research and development center; HHS = Department of Health and Human Services; NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration; NSF = National Science Foundation.
a Prior to FY 2016, the Judiciary Engineering and Modernization Center was misclassified and included as an industry-administered FFRDC. Its classification was corrected in FY 2016 to a nonprofit-administered FFRDC.
SOURCE: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, FFRDC Research and Development Survey, FY 2016.