For example, an indirect cost rate of 50% means that for every dollar awarded as part of a research grant for eligible direct costs, the institution would receive an additional 50 cents to cover ...

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced that it will cap the reimbursement of facility and administrative (F&A) costs—also known as indirect costs—at 15% for all new grants ...

In the contexts of administrative law and regulatory economics, the terms direct costs and indirect costs can be used in several different ways: [1] [2] [3] In administrative law, to refer to a set of ...

The calculator estimates that the new and reciprocal proposed tariffs will cost the global economy more than $4.7 trillion in direct and indirect costs.

A coalition of research universities and higher education advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the Department of Energy, asking a judge to immediately block the department’s plan to ...

“A cut to the reimbursement of necessary research costs is a cut to research, plain and simple,” writes Barbara R. Snyder, president of the Association of American Universities.

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.

On February 7, the NIH announced that it would begin capping indirect cost payments for new and existing research grants at 15%.

NIH’s 15% Indirect Cost Cap Could Cripple Research, Scientists Say Scientists warn that the NIH’s 15% indirect costs cap could threaten research funding and stall biomedical innovation.

"Of this funding, approximately $26 billion went to direct costs for research, while $9 billion was allocated to overhead through NIH's indirect cost rate," according to the report.

PacBio cited the impact of the NIH indirect funding cap, plus macroeconomic challenges consistent with 2024—such as extended sales cycles, especially for higher-end instruments like its Revio ...