The NSF had attempted to reduce indirect costs (F&A) on all future grants to 15%, in a somewhat more coherent version of the NIH's effort to do so for all ongoing and future grants. A federal court today enjoined the rate cut, vacating the new rule, finding that "National Science Foundation’s 15% Indirect Cost Rate and the Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate, NSF 25-034 are invalid, arbitrary and capricious, and contrary to law"
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