House Proposes Cap for Defense Grants

A provision added to an appropriations bill for the Defense Department would place a 20-percent cap on overhead costs for competitively awarded grants from the agency.

The language, approved as part of the broader spending bill by the Appropriations Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, took university officials by surprise. It would affect only the $1.55-billion the Defense Department spends on fundamental or basic research. Typically, about 60 percent of that money goes to

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