Because indirect (F&A) costs cannot be readily assigned to a particular sponsored project or activity, they must be recovered from funding agencies through the application of the federally approved ...

Indirect costs are fat targets for budget slashers, but beware: They make science possible. They don't pay for the ...

A coalition of universities, medical centers and other research institutions have pitched proposals on new funding models for how the federal government covers indirect costs that support research ...

Please visit our dedicated page on Federal Executive Orders, which includes FAQs Related to the NIH Funding Cap.. Dear Colleagues, This morning, the NSF published a notice that they would be ...

A group of higher education associations is floating changes to the federal government’s model for reimbursing research ...

After two decades of work in biomedical research policy, there is no topic Carrie Wolinetz hates talking about more than indirect costs. She’s addressing them now because they are crucial.

The University of Michigan, Brown and Cornell universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and several other U.S. schools won a federal court order striking down a National Science ...

NSF Implementation of 15% indirect costs rate May 5, 2025 NSF has issued guidance regarding its "Adoption of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate for NSF Grants and Cooperative Agreements awarded to ...

All external contributions must include indirect costs either at the third-party organization's approved federally negotiated indirect cost rate or the de minimis rate of 10% of MTDC. Although it is ...

The National Science Foundation won’t award any new funding “until further notice.” The agency also moved to cap indirect research rates at 15 percent. Meanwhile, President Trump proposed cutting the ...