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 entrance to the National Science Foundation's building in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 29, 2020. The agency is capping indirect research costs at 15% for colleges' new grants, it recently announced.

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 ...

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The DOE issued on April 11 a similar standardized 15 percent indirect cost rate and explained that the department was working to terminate grant awards for universities that do not conform with ...

Two months after the National Institutes of Health unilaterally capped indirect research cost reimbursement rates at 15 percent—which a federal judge has permanently blocked—the Department of Energy ...

In February, the NIH attempted to cut overhead costs it pays to universities and grantees to 15 percent, a decision that critics said would result in a $4 billion shortfall to universities and ...

For example, if I receive a grant from the NIH to fund the creation of a new breed of aquatic mice (a long-standing dream of mine) which included direct costs of $1,000,000, an indirect cost rate of ...

For that, taxpayers shelled out a hair more than $495,000, of which about $168,000 was for “indirect” costs, which supposedly cover Havard’s overhead to undergird Janiak’s research.

On February 7, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would begin capping indirect cost payments for new and existing research grants at 15%, effective on February 10. 1 The ...

To the Case Western Reserve University community, Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelly issued a nationwide preliminary injunction that prohibits the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...

The proposed 15% cap for indirect costs is almost half the average NIH indirect cost rate reported over recent years, which was 27–29%, but extended beyond 50% for some institutes. The variation here ...