Federal Research Division

The Federal Research Division (FRD) is the research and analysis unit of the United StatesLibrary of Congress.

The Federal Research Division provides directed research and analysis on domestic and international subjects to agencies of the United States government, the District of Columbia, and authorized federal contractors. As expert users of the vast English and foreign-language collections of the Library of Congress, the Division's area and subject specialists employ the resources of the world's largest library and other information sources worldwide to produce impartial and comprehensive studies on a cost-recovery basis.

The Federal Research Program is run by the Federal Research Division (FRD), the fee-for-service research and analysis unit within the Library of Congress. The Federal Research Program of the Library of Congress was authorized by the United States Congress in accordance with the Library of Congress Fiscal Operations Improvement Act of 2000 (2 U.S.C. 182c). Since 1948, FRD has operated on a "cost-recovery" funding (revolving funds), providing "high-quality" and custom products to the entities of the Federal government of the United States. Through the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR 51.1) and a comprehensive services agreement with the U.S. National Technical Information Service External Link, the FRD provides services to authorized federal contractors, the private sector, state and local government, international organizations, and others.