UMN Washington Update

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