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OMB Memo M-21-32 R&D Priorities - Print Version for NIW Exhibits

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Black-and-white print copy of OMB memorandum M-21-32 (FY2023 multi-agency R&D priorities) formatted for inclusion as a national-importance exhibit.

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About this document

An OMB and OSTP memorandum dated August 27, 2021 on multi-agency R&D priorities for FY 2023 budget submissions. It sets government-wide research themes, including pandemic readiness, climate change, critical technologies, equity, and national security, and says agencies should coordinate and note how their budgets address them. The memo also emphasizes public access, reproducibility, workforce diversity, and U.S.-based manufacturing and supply chains.

Key points

  • Addresses FY 2023 budget submissions to OMB and asks agencies to note when they cover the listed priorities.
  • Requires coordination among agencies with related activities and summaries of those discussions in budget submissions.
  • Pandemic readiness section covers early warning, diagnostics, therapies, vaccine design, manufacturing, genomic sequencing, and variant tracking.
  • Climate section includes climate science, clean energy deployment, adaptation and resilience, nature-based solutions, and greenhouse gas monitoring.
  • Critical technologies section names AI, QIS, advanced communications, microelectronics, HPC, biotechnology, robotics, and space technologies.
  • Innovation for equity focuses on programs that expand equitable inclusion, health equity, data infrastructure, and workforce diversity.
  • National security and economic resilience section targets biosecurity, nuclear risk reduction, cyber defense, critical infrastructure, and supply chains.
  • Other guidance calls for federally funded R&D to be open, reproducible, transparent, safe, ethical, and less burdened by administration.

What is inside

  1. Memorandum header and subject
  2. Introductory policy statement
  3. Multi-Agency R&D Priorities
  4. Pandemic readiness and prevention
  5. Tackling climate change
  6. Critical and emerging technologies
  7. Innovation for equity
  8. National security and economic resilience

When it helps

This serves as background evidence for a national-importance or public-interest theme by showing federal priority areas in research and development. It also supports framing work around climate, public health, equity, critical technologies, or security as aligned with stated government priorities.

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