Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Administration Research and Development Budget Priorities and Cross-Cutting Actions

The Trump administration's five research and development priorities include ensuring American leadership in critical and emerging technologies. These critical and emerging technologies promise to fuel American prosperity, improve quality of life and national security, and create high-paying jobs for American workers:

• Artificial Intelligence: The potential of AI as a new frontier of exploration and application promises breakthroughs across a range of scientific disciplines and industrial sectors. Federal investment in fundamental research into novel AI paradigms and computing architectures will support continued American leadership in this field. Areas of emphasis include AI architectural advancements; data-efficient and high-performance AI techniques and systems; the interpretability, controllability, and steerability of AI systems; and AI adversarial robustness, resilience, and security. Applied AI priorities include AI for the acceleration of scientific discovery; nuclear fission and fusion for energy production; quantum information science; advanced space analytics, remote sensing, and navigation; and embodied AI (autonomous robotics, drones, self-driving cars, and advanced sensors). Additional priorities include enhanced methodologies for AI evaluation and measurement (e.g., reliability, accuracy, robustness) and the creation and publication of structured scientific datasets for AI model training. 
• Quantum Information S&T: As quantum technologies mature and become increasingly available on the commercial market, bolstering U.S. leadership will require advancing fundamental science while also tackling emerging engineering challenges and strengthening the critical technologies enabling the quantum ecosystem. Agencies should deepen focused efforts, such as centers and core programs, to advance basic quantum information science, while also prioritizing R&D that expands the understanding of end user applications and supports the maturation of enabling technologies. 
• Semiconductors and Microelectronics: Federal investments in semiconductor and microelectronics R&D are critical to enabling the development and deployment of AI and quantum applications and strengthening supply chain resilience. 
• Advanced Communications Networks: Agencies, in close coordination with the private sector, should strengthen basic research in advanced communications technologies. This research should further America’s leadership in 5G, 6G, and beyond wireless networks, such as proliferated spacebased communication networks, to spur innovation and growth. This includes research on AI techniques optimized for wireless systems, novel approaches to spectrum sharing, and application of AI to communications and cybersecurity, toward the goal of secure and trusted applications. Agencies should encourage the development of applications that leverage 5G, 6G, and advanced networks that incorporate security and privacy by design. 
• Future Computing Technologies: To accelerate critical and emerging technologies, agencies should prioritize efforts to integrate advanced computing, software, and data resources from exascale to the edge towards enabling end-to-end application workflows, while supporting innovations in and translation of future technologies. Investment priorities include fundamental R&D in future computing technologies and paradigms including testbeds, computing infrastructure, experimental systems, and prototypes. Agencies should explore innovative models for resource aggregation and sharing, and for public-private partnerships. Priorities include translational efforts such as consortia or centers of excellence that leverage such partnerships towards the development and sustainability of computing, software, and data solutions.