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Two Maryland universities are joining a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense, arguing they could lose tens of millions of dollars if the department caps its indirect cost rates.

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Universities factor those rates into their institutional budgets. For example, Johns Hopkins and the DOD currently have in place a negotiated indirect cost rate of 55 percent. In 2024 JHU received $32 ...

A federal judge on June 20 rejected the National Science Foundation’s move to cap indirect costs related to its research grants at 15%, following similar decisions by other courts.

After years of conversations surrounding indirect research costs, academic groups are now under the gun to quickly come up with an alternative to the NIH’s proposed 15% across-the-board cap on ...

Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Costs are charged to externally sponsored awards, unless specifically prohibited by the funding agency. A percentage of F&A Costs recovered from sponsored projects ...

But Talwani, an Obama appointee, ruled that she could review their decision, and in capping indirect rates via a policy note, NSF officials failed to follow federal regulations as well as the ...

Indirect costs are fat targets for budget slashers, but beware: They make science possible. They don't pay for the chromatograph I use in my experiments, but they do pay for the electricity to run it.