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NSIAD-84-120 1 (1984-05-30)

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  NATIONAL SECURITY AND
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DIVISION


UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
        WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548


                               MAY 3 0 1984


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The Honorable William Proxmire

United States Senate

Dear Senator Proxmire:


Subject:


The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's
Fiscal Year 1985 Budget Requests That Support De-
partment of Defense Programs (GAO/NSIAD-84-120)


     On February 23, 1984, you asked us to update for fiscal year
1985 our report to you entitled Analysis of NASA's Fiscal Year 1983
Budget Request for Research and Development to Determine the Amount
That Supports DOD's Programs (MASAD-82-33). Since that report, the
space shuttle, which was primarily funded under NASA's Research and
Development appropriation at the time of our earlier work, has
become operational. As a result, a new appropriation was created
entitled Space Flight, Control and Data Communications.

     To address the Research and Development and the Space Flight,
Control and Data Communications appropriations, we requested NASA
program offices to prepare a breakout of their fiscal year 1985
budget requests as either DOD or civil supportive based on program
requirements and applications. Any funding supporting both civil
and DOD programs which could not be allocated separately was to be
identified as both civil and DOD supportive.

     Starting with NASA's allocations, we made further allocations
using alternative methods which we believe provide a reasonable
measure of civil or DOD support. A comparison of NASA's
allocations and our allocations follows. A detailed discussion of
the differences is contained in the enclosure.


Allocation
made by


NASA
  Dollars in millions
  Percent of total

GAO
  Dollars in millions
  Percent of total


  DOD
support


Civil
support


$  2.1    $2,556.1
    .04       42.6


$602.3
  10.0


$4,859.7
    81.0


Civil &
  DOD
support


$3,442.2
    57.4


$  538.4
     9.0


Total


$6,000.4
   100.0a


$6,000.4
   100.0


a This line does not add to 100 percent due to rounding.


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