March 2018

NIH Notice: Salary Cap Increase Effective January 7, 2018

Author: Judith Ryan

On March 7, 2018, NIH released NOT-OD-18-137, which gave notice of the NIH new salary cap effective January 7, 2018. The cap increases to $189,600.
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, restricts the amount of direct salary to Executive Level II of the Federal Executive pay scale. The Office of Personnel Management has recently released new salary levels for the Executive Pay Scale. Effective January 7, 2018, the salary limitation for Executive Level II...

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NSF-PAR Expansion to Allow NSF Authors to Retrieve Submitted Department of Energy Manuscripts to Meet NSF’s Public Access Requirement

Please see the below message from NSF for an interesting update about an NSF Public Access Repository (NSF-PAR) expansion:

Beginning on March 26, 2018, NSF authors who are jointly funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE) can retrieve previously submitted final manuscripts from the DOE system and pull them into NSF-PAR to meet NSF’s Public Access requirement. When an author indicates they have deposited a record into the DOE E-Link system and a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) match is found, the system will upload it to NSF-PAR for...

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Training Opportunity: Small Business Subcontracting Plans

The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) and the Office of Strategic Procurement have developed a new training opportunity to support schools awarded federal contracts over $700,000 that require Small Business Subcontracting Plans.

In this training you will learn:

  • What a small business subcontracting plan is, when it is required, and the importance of developing a viable plan
  • Available resources to help you create an acceptable plan
  • The best time to request assistance in the contract cycle

The objectives of...

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