Indirect Costs, also known as Facilities and Administrative Costs (F&A) or overhead, are institutional costs that are not specifically allocable to individual sponsored projects but are real costs ...

Since 1947, the federal government has provided research institutions with funding for administrative and facilities costs such as rent, heating, and electricity in addition to direct costs for ...

Indirect costs (Facilities and Administrative (F&A) costs) are charged to externally sponsored awards, unless specifically prohibited by the funding agency. A percentage of indirect (F&A) costs ...

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 said could ...

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Currently, taxpayers are forced to subsidize the agenda of the political left through funding its research agendas and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) staff on university campuses. The Left has ...

What are Indirect (IDC or F&A) Costs? Federal Regulations define IDC as "Indirect costs are those that have been incurred for common or joint objectives and cannot be readily identified with a ...

Massachusetts Hall is located in Harvard Yard and houses the University president's office. As indirect costs from the National Institutes of Health hang in legal limbo, Harvard's rate has come under ...

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 ...

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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from implementing a 15% cap on indirect research costs funded by NSF. A federal judge has granted summary judgment in favor of several universities ...

A coalition of universities have filed a federal lawsuit against the National Science Foundation. Thirteen research universities have filed a federal lawsuit that seeks to stop the National Science ...