Essential reading:
What Representative Lamar Smith Is Really Trying to Do at NSF – ScienceInsider.
The real question is whether an ‘extra layer’ of accountability is necessary. Before adding more government red tape, it would be better to ask NSF to monitor the revised Merit Review Process, especially the use of the Broader Impacts Criterion.
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