The National Institutes of Health has updated its NIH Data Book with 2011 data. In a blog post discussing availability of this newly released data, Dr. Sally Rockey, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, noted a few highlights including: Overall success…

NASA has historically prohibited commercial firms from collecting profit or fee, however that prohibition did not explicitly include other applicants such as universities and non-profits. The proposed rule extends the prohibition on payment of profit or fee to all grant…

NIH published  notice of an RFI requesting input into recommendations being developed regarding enhancing diversity including underrepresented minorities, persons with disabilities and persons from disadvantaged backgrounds in the biomedical workforce. Input is solicited regarding people in all career stages.  As…

Grants.gov published an updated request form and procedures for use by institutions to set up web certificates for System-to-System submission. The new procedure and form are available here: http://grants.gov/applicant_s2s/applicants2s_faqs.jsp#q5 Note that in order for submissions to the Grants.gov UAT (test)…

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 <http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2012/01/10/delivering-a-mozilla-firefox-extended-support-release/> on January 10th, Mozilla agreed to develop a plan…