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April 20, 2015
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R&D center funding has declined since 2010, when a stimulus bill provided an extra $1 billion.
Federal funding for the FFRDCS centers has been declining since a high of $18 billion in FY 2010, which corresponded with an infusion of more than $1 billion from the one-time American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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