Harvard’s indirect cost rate — the percent of federal funding that covers administrative costs of research — is currently 69 percent, the largest of any Ivy League school.

The Department of Defense is planning to cap indirect cost reimbursement rates for higher education institutions at 15 percent, according to a May 14 memo signed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a grants policy statement regarding a change in indirect cost rates due to a recent executive order. The NIH is implementing a standardized 15% ...

The US National Institutes of Health is lowering the maximum “indirect cost rate” that research institutions can charge the government, the agency said late Friday – a move that scientists ...

First, §74.414(c)(4) states that the HHS awarding agency, “[a]s required under §75.203(c) [which sets forth, with reference to Appendix I, what must be in included in notices of funding ...

As of Monday, the NIH’s new policy to cap indirect cost reimbursement rates to 15 percent of a given grant, regardless of institution location, scale, or initiative, is in effect.

To the Case Western Reserve community: Late Friday afternoon, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a notice titled “Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect ...

Impact on Indirect (F&A) Rate Calculation. The indirect or facilities & administrative (F&A) rate is calculated based on the proportion of indirect costs (facilities and administration) relative to ...

An indirect cost rate of 15% is far lower than the federally negotiated rates that most institutions rely on to pay for laboratory utilities, facility maintenance, ...

On May 2, 2025, the National Science Foundation (“NSF”) issued a “Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate” (NSF 25-034) (hereinafter “Policy Notice”) adopting ...

The US National Institutes of Health is lowering the maximum “indirect cost rate” that research institutions can charge the government, the agency said late Friday – a move that scientists ...