Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the human/political issues surrounding college admissions. Federal moves to freeze or cut indirect cost recovery rates ...

As a recipient of EPA funding, understanding and applying Indirect Costs are an important part of grant management. EPA has provided the below information to help recipients not only learn the basics ...

Indirect costs, also known as overhead and more recently defined by the federal government as Facilities and Administration (F&A), are those costs that UMass incurs for common or joint objectives that ...

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 ...

2 CFR 200.1 "Recipient" means an entity, usually but not limited to non-Federal entities that receives a Federal award directly from a Federal awarding agency. The term recipient does not include ...

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 ...

Wolinetz is chair of the health bioscience innovations practice at Lewis-Burke Associates and former chief of staff to the director of NIH. I’ve spent more than two decades of work in biomedical ...

Early this week, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees released the final negotiated language of the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (FY26 NDAA), which the House promptly ...

F&A [Facilities & Administrative] costs, also known as IER [Indirect Expense Recovery] or Indirect Costs, are real costs that are necessary to cover expenses which cannot be charged directly to a ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. As they battle the Trump administration in court over its plan to ...

Both organizations (lead applicant and the partner(s)) can charge indirect costs, but each organization must adhere to its own rate agreement (and allowable costs under the base). Additionally, these ...

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 ...