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News Release 13-052

Federally-funded Research and Development Centers Spend $17.8 Billion in Fiscal Year 2011

Federal funding accounted for 97.6 percent of total expenditures by FFRCDs in FY 2011

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Privately operated R&D organizations benefit from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

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