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A much better comparison would be to look at the proportions dedicated to research.

E.g., DARPA vs NIH, not DoD vs Medicare or DoD vs NIH.




DARPA’s budget was slightly under $4B in 2022 — an order of magnitude smaller than the NIH.

My original comparison was because Medicare and the DOD have their own funding authorities and I didn’t want to sift through their budgets to find it all.




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