Responding to concern from universities, businesses and other institutions, the Mozilla foundation has approved moving forward with establishing an Extended Support Release (ESR) version of Firefox. In a blog post…

A Bill in the House of Representatives (HR 3699) sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa, the Research Works Act, seeks to block federal policy requiring free access to federally funded biomedical…

The National Science Board, NSF’s oversight body, will maintain the two Merit Review Criteria – Intellectual Merit and Broader Impact – according to a new report recently published. The Board…

The Advisory Committee to the Director of NIH has issued a Request for Information to collect information from the community that can be used to develop recommendations regarding the “management,…

NIH has announced the establishment of a new center, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), which will focus on supporting identifying and overcoming barriers that slow the development of effective medical treatments…

The migration to cloud computing is off and running in the US Federal Government. In February, 2011, then US CIO Vivek Kundra published Federal Cloud Computing Strategy , wherein he…

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) recently published The Economic Impact of Publicly Funded Research Conducted by AAMC-Member Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals. In 2009, the report noted, federal-…

The US Congress passed an omnibus bill to fund remaining government departments including the NIH late last week and over the weekend. In the final bill, the NIH salary cap…