OMB Proposal to Rewrite Federal Grant Rules Threatens US Scientific Research Enterprise
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Stephen D. Turner
Summary
The article discusses a critical policy change proposed by the Office of Management and Budget to rewrite 2 CFR Part 200, the rule governing how all federal grants are spent. The author breaks their usual rule of avoiding advocacy to highlight this issue, noting that a Science editorial has laid out the implications. The piece also covers AIxBio topics including the open-closed model gap, evaluations in the biorisk hierarchy, DARPA AI Forge, refusal benchmarks, and OpenAI's Rosalind Biodefense initiative, framing these as interconnected developments affecting US scientific research.
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· 3 pulledI'm not an activist, and I don't use this space for advocacy. As a rule, I keep my opinions about research politics and policy off the site (and anywhere else online in general). I'm breaking that rule today, because this reaches every part of the scientific research enterprise and whatever role the United States still hopes to play in it.
The Office of Management and Budget has proposed rewriting 2 CFR Part 200, the rule that governs how every federal grant gets spent.
A Science editorial lays out what that would mean
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