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General Science, Space, and Technology

$34.9 billion of gross federal outlays were reported under the General Science, Space, and Technology heading in fiscal year 2026, the 17 largest of 18 budget functions. National Aeronautics and Space Administration accounts for 58.0% of it.

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Budget function
General Science, Space, and Technology

The record

Reported figures for General Science, Space, and Technology, each linked to its source
Outlays · FY2026Gross outlays, not net. At this grain they are routinely negative for some agencies, which is why nothing here calls them money spent.$34,944,544,359USD, gross
Obligations · FY2026$32,386,934,293USD
Rank among budget functions · FY202617 of 18by outlays
Share of all budget functions · FY20260.4%percent of outlays under every heading
Agencies reporting under it · FY20263agencies

Agencies reporting under this heading

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Agencies reporting outlays under General Science, Space, and Technology, fiscal year 2026
RankAgencyOutlays
1National Aeronautics and Space Administration$20,251,413,576
2Department of Energy$7,570,379,558
3National Science Foundation$7,122,751,225

An agency with a top-tier code and no name reports this function to the account data and does not appear in the award table the names come from. Its figure is the publisher’s; the missing name is ours.

What this data cannot show

  • A budget function is reported per agency and never nationally. The figure at the top of this page is a sum over the rows in the table below, not a total the publisher published.
  • Gross outlays are not net outlays and neither is money spent in the sense a reader means. An agency’s figure can be negative when it recovers more than it pays out under a heading in the period.
  • The fiscal year is not over. These are the figures reported so far.
  • Budget functions describe purpose, not programme. Money under one heading can pay for work a reader would file under several, and one programme can appear under more than one heading in different agencies.

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