Federal Facilities Research and Development Survey 2022

The Federal Facilities Research and Development (R&D) Survey will fill a longstanding gap in data on federal R&D. This new Federal Facilities R&D (FFRD) Survey will be the unique source of federal performer-reported data on R&D expenditures and R&D personnel. In conjunction with performer-reported data for the remaining sectors of the economy-the Business Enterprise R&D Survey (businesses with more than nine employees), the Survey of State Government R&D (state agencies), the Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) R&D Survey (the nation's 43 designated FFRDCs), the Higher Education R&D Survey (colleges and universities), the Annual Business Survey (micro-businesses with one to nine employees), and the Nonprofit Research Activities Survey (nonprofit organizations)-the FFRD Survey data will be used to estimate total national R&D performance and other critical statistics increasingly important in the analysis of global R&D competitiveness. The FFRD Survey is sponsored by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) within the National Science Foundation.