The new (2008) fiscal year for the U.S. government started on 1 October, and naturally there's no NIH budget yet. So the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is operating on a continuing resolution (CR) that currently extends through November 16, 2007. The CR applies the terms of the FY 2007 appropriations for the period covered by the CR, which means that until the final FY 2008 appropriation is enacted, NIH will issue non-competing research-grant awards at "up to 80% of the previously committed level," just as it has done in each of the last 2 years. NIH will consider upward adjustments to these levels after the final appropriation is enacted, but "expects institutions to monitor their expenditures carefully during this period."
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October 8, 2007
NIH Noncompetitive Renewals: Here We Go Again
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