November 15, 2007

Defense-Spending Bill with Boost for Basic Research Is Signed Into Law

By Jeffrey Brainard

Defense spending on basic research will receive a larger-than-usual increase, of 4.5 percent, in an appropriations bill signed into law by President Bush this week.

The final measure, HR 3222, also retained a controversial provision to cap overhead, or indirect costs, on basic-research grants and contracts financed by the Pentagon at 35 percent (The

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