The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has provided guidance to federal research agencies on preparing their Fiscal Year 2020 budget requests, which should be formally presented to Congress for consideration in early February 2019. The annual OMB guidance memo to agencies provides an early look at an administration’s research priorities. The priority areas that are identified in the guidance document include:

1. national security with a focus on artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, hypersonics, a modernized nuclear deterrent, advanced microelectronics, computing, and cyber capabilities;
2. advanced communications networks;
3. autonomous driving systems and unmanned aircraft systems;
4. advanced manufacturing;
5. energy independence;
6. medical innovation with a focus on personalized medicine, the opioid crisis, infectious diseases, veterans and aging adults;
7. agriculture;
8. workforce training for the 21^st century economy;
9. stewardship of American research infrastructure;
10. lab-to-market initiatives; and
11. promotion of academic, industry and government collaboration.