[co-author: Christina Barone] President Biden’s Discretionary Budget Request: Fiscal Year 2022 On April 9, 2021, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) submitted President Biden’s discretionary funding request (the “Request”) to Congress for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022. The Request lays out the President’s discretionary funding recommendations across a wide range of policy areas, including a strategy for investing in emerging technology areas, maintaining economic competitiveness and national security and positioning the U.S. to out-compete China. The Request is high-level and did not include proposed legislative text. The President’s Request recommends: Department of Commerce $916 million to expand scientific and technological research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in areas including artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, quantum information science (QIS) and biotechnology and to establish prize competitions to pursue key technology goals.