FY 2027 appropriations funding for federally funded, extramural research and development at DOD, DOE, NSF, NASA, NOAA, NEH, NEA, Department of Education, HHS, NIH and other federal research funding. Advocating for federal funding of student aid including Pell, SEOG and Work-Study funding FY 2027 Agriculture Appropriations H.R. 8646, No Senate bill number, H.R. 5371 Title I, Research and Extension accounts including Hatch, McIntire-Stennis, AFRI research and Smith-Lever extension funding. FY 2027 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations H.R. 8845, No Senate bill number, NSF research, NIST Advanced Manufacturing Institutes and MEP funding, NASA research, NASA SpaceGrant, NOAA OAR, NOAA SeaGrant funding. FY 2027 Defense Appropriations H.R. 9495, No Senate bill number,. Title IV, RDT&E funding for fundamental and applied research across Navy, Army, Air Force and defense-wide. Support for Department of Energy Research, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy funding, Dept. of Energy Office of Science research funding FY 2027 Appropriations, H.R. 9022, No Senate Bill number. Interior and Environment Appropriations for FY 2027, H.R. 9171, no Senate bill number. Support for Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife funding, specifically for USGS Cooperative Research Institutes, Dept. of Interior climate adaptation centers.
FY2027 Appropriations FY 2027 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations measures, H.R. 9260, No Senate bill number. Support student aid in the Pell, SEOG and Work-Study programs as well as education related research and scholarship supported by the Department of Education FIPSE and FIE research programs. The FY 2027 Appropriations bill for federal financial aid and research funding within the Department of Education have not been introduced in the Senate yet.
FY 2027 Defense Appropriations and Defense Authorization bills NDAA bill number H.R. 8800 in the House and NDAA bill number S. 4784, Appropriations bill H.R. 9495, no Senate bill number. Defense research and development funding, Appropriations funding in Title IV. FY 2027 appropriations for Defense including funding for 6.1 and 6.2 funding at the Army, Navy, Air Force and defense-wide research. NDAA authorization for fundamental and applied research funding across services including Army, Air Force, Navy, Defense-wide and Space Force including hypersonics research and materials sciences and microelectronics research.
No specific bills yet introduced during this (April-June 2026) time period that specifically impact university owned IP, but advocacy and support robust patent protections for university-based discoveries and licensing agreements and the ability to defend patents from infringement.
FY 2027 Energy and Water Appropriations, H.R. 9022, no Senate bill number, advocating for Nuclear Energy support to university based reactors and support additional research funding for the university program in the Nuclear Energy office of the Department of Energy and funding for the energy efficiency and renewable energy funding to extramural research.
FY 2027 Appropriations H.R. 9310, No Senate bill number, funding for DHS research and development related to wild-land fires, first responder technologies and other research related to the textiles, first responders, and structural firefighting.
National Science Foundation, NASA SpaceGrant and NASA Office of Science, NOAA OAR and SeaGrant funding, Department of Defense 6.1 and 6.2 funding, Department of Energy EERE, Office of Science, Nuclear Energy. NIH and HHS research funding. Department of Education FIPSE and FIE funding, USDA Hatch, McIntire-Stennis and AFRI funding in FY 2027 - FY 2027 Agriculture Appropriations H.R. 8646, No Senate Bill number, Title I, Research and Extension funding for Smith-Lever, Hatch Act, McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry research, AFRI research funding. FY 2027 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations (H.R. 8845, no Senate bill number). NSF research, NIST Advanced Manufacturing Institutes and MEP, NASA research, NOAA OAR and NOAA SeaGrant funding. FY 2027 Defense Appropriations (H.R. 9495, No Senate bill number). Title IV, RDT&E funding for fundamental and applied research across Navy, Army, Air Force and defense-wide. FY 2027 funding levels for extramural research and development FY 2027 Energy and Water Appropriations, (H.R. 9022 No Senate bill number yet), advocate for competitive, robust funding levels for EERE, Office of Science, Nuclear Energy University Research programs.
Name-Image-Likeness legislation and other college sports, student-athlete and regulatory proposals. The Score Act, HR 4312, that would support student-athletes and and limited antitrust exemptions to allow universities, conferences the NCAA to regulate the marketplace of NIL for student athletes and coordination of standards and guidelines.
Support federal funding of Hatch Act research, Smith-Lever cooperative extension, McIntire-Stennis cooperative forestry research, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), NIFA Research Facilities Act funding for infrastructure renewal and renovation. FY 2027 Agriculture Appropriations and passage of a Farm Bill. FY 2027 Agriculture Appropriations, H.R. 8646, No Senate Bill number. FY 2027 Agriculture Appropriations Title I, Research and Extension
Support FY 2027 federal funding for NIH research related to comparative medicine, zoonotic diseases, animal models of human disease research and other medical related research for biomedical research, veterinary medicine. FY2027 Appropriations for Labor/HHS/Education bill, H.R. 9260, No Senate bill. Support increasing funding for FY 2027 federal funding for NIH research related to comparative medicine, zoonotic diseases, animal models of human disease research and other medical related research for biomedical research, veterinary medicine. FY2027 Appropriations for Labor/HHS/Education bill, H.R. 9260, No Senate bill.
Federal research investments for US Forest Service, USDA, forestry, natural resources, US Geological Survey Cooperative Research Units (CRUs) including federal funding in FY 2027 Appropriations measures. USDA FY 2027 Agriculture Appropriations H.R. 8646, No Senate Bill number. 256 Title I, Research and Extension, FY 2027 US Department of Interior Appropriations, H.R. 9171, No Senate bill number and other forestry research. Federal research investments for US Forest Service, USDA, forestry, natural resources, US Geological Survey Cooperative Research Units (CRUs) including federal funding in FY 2027 Appropriations measures.