Government Space Budgets
United States Government Space Budget
2017 – U.S. National Security Space Budgets – Snapshot
Nearly half of U.S. government spending, 47.7%, went toward national security space activities within the Department of Defense (DoD) budget. Intelligence programs run by . . .
2017 – U.S. Civil Space Budgets – Snapshot
The United States spent $22.4 billion on civil space activities in FY 2016, up 6.7% from $21.0 billion in FY 2015. Civil spending accounts for just over . . .
2017 – United States Government Space Budget – Snapshot
The United States spent $43.3 billion on space activities in fiscal year (FY) 2017, which ran from October 1, 2016, through September 30, 2017. This was a . . .
2016 – U.S. Civil Space Budgets
The United States spent $22.4 billion on civil space activities in FY 2016, up 6.7% from $21.0 billion in FY 2015. Civil spending accounts for just over half of total U.S. space spending. The largest contributor . . .
2016 – U.S. National Security Space Budgets – Snapshot
The United States spent $## billion on space activities in FY 2016, which ran from October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016. ## of this spending, ## %, went…
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2015 – RDT&E and IR&D funding
Independent Research and Development (IR&D) refers to a contractor’s own investment in research and development studies into promising technologies of potential interest to government or commercial customers. Companies can recover a portion of these costs as overhead on current government contracts. In 2015, IR&D spending was estimated to be $165 million.
2015 – U.S. National Security Space Budgets – Snapshot
The majority of U.S. space spending in FY 2015, 52.9%, was directed toward national security space programs, including those conducted by the military services, the…
2015 – U.S. Civil Space Budgets – Snapshot
The United States spent $20.1 billion on civil space activities in FY 2015, up 2.5% from FY 2014. Civil spending accounts for just under half of total U.S. space spending. The largest contributor…
2015 – United States Government Space Budget – Snapshot
The United States spent $44.57 billion on space activities in 2015. The majority of this spending, 52.9%, went toward national security space activities within the Department of Defense (DoD) budget.