The University of Minnesota receives a weekly congressional update prepared by Lewis-Burke Associates LLC in DC with additional federal policy updates and funding opportunities. Brian Paro ([email protected]) is the University’s director of Federal Relations.
June 13, 2025 Update
- Funding Opportunity: NSTC Launches 2025 Workforce Awards Program Call for Proposals 1
- Funding Opportunity: U.S. Department of Transportation Releases FY 2025 Pipeline Safety Research Competitive Academic Agreement Program 3
- Funding Opportunity: DHA Releases Military Health System Research Program Soliciation 4
- Funding Opportunity: DARPA DSO Releases Office-Wide BAA 5
- Engagement Opportunity: DARPA BTO Releases Solicitation for Agricultural Defense Innovations 6
- Appropriations Update: HAC-D Advances FY 2026 Defense Appropriations Bill 7
- Appropriations Update: House Appropriations Releases FY 2026 Agriculture Bill 7
- Policy Update: Trump Administration Announces New U.S. Entry Restrictions for Nineteen Countries 10
- Policy Update: Senate Agriculture Committee Releases Reconciliation Proposal 11
- Policy Update: Senate HELP Committee Releases Higher Education Reconciliation Proposal 13
- Policy Update: NIH Indicates New Policy on Fully Funding Research Project Grants 13
June 6, 2025 Update
- Policy Update: Trump Administration Releases Detailed President’s Budget Request
May 30, 2025 Update
- Policy Update: Make America Healthy Again Commission Releases Report on Chronic Childhood Disease
- Funding Opportunities:
- NIH Launches Autism Data Science Initiative
- DOD CDMRP Releases FY 2025 Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program Solicitations
- Defense Innovation Unit Release Dual-Use University Accelerator Challenge
- DOJ COPS Releases Funding Opportunities
May 23, 2025 Update
- Policy Updates:
- House of Representatives Advances Reconciliation Package
- DOD Releases Memorandum Implementing 15 Percent Indirect Cost Cap on Assistance Awards to institutions of Higher Education
- Funding Opportunity: NSF Releases Verticals-enabling Intelligent Network Systems (VINES)
- Engagement Opportunities:
- Natcast Releases RFI for Low-Dimensional Materials for Power-Performance-Area Optimization in Logic Applications
- NCI Releases RFI on Benchmarks for AI in Cancer Research
May 16, 2025 Update
- Policy Update: House of Representatives Holds Committee Markups and Prepares Reconciliation Package for Full House Consideration
- Congressional Update: HHS Secretary Testifies Before House Appropriations LHHS Subcommittee and Senate HELP Committee on FY 2026 Budget Request
- Funding Opportunities:
- DOD CDMRP Releases FY 2025 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program Solicitations
- NIST Releases NOFO for Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs
May 8, 2025 Update
- Policy Updates:
- White House Office of Management and Budget Releases the President's Fiscal Year 2026 Skinny Budget
- NSF Announces Cap on F&A Costs
- New Executive Order on Biosecurity, Biosafety, and Pathogen Research
- NIH Updates Its Policy on Foreign Subawards
- Agency Update: Implications of EPA Reorganization for Environmental Health Research and Regulatory Science
- Engagement Opportunity: RFI on the American Science Acceleration Project (ASAP)
May 2, 2025 Update
- Engagement Opportunity: OSTP Releases RFI to Inform New AI R&D Strategic Plan
- Congressional Update: House Education and Workforce Committee Approves Reconciliation Bill