News & Insights

We are hearing from an increasing number of our federal grantee clients who are facing challenges with their Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreements (NICRAs) as a result of significant staffing shortages at [...]

Injunctions Remain in Effect Until Appellate Courts Rule On November 7, 2025, the federal government filed notices of appeal in two separate lawsuits challenging its reinterpretation of what constitutes a “Federal public [...]

Feldesman Partner Phillip A. Escoriaza will present on the shifting federal grants landscape at the Grant Professionals Association GrantSummit 2025, taking place October 29 to November 1 in Baltimore, Maryland.  Mr. Escoriaza’s [...]

Feldesman Partner Mindy Pava will deliver key legal insights with the scientific research community during two sessions at the upcoming 2025 Society of Research Administrations International (SRAI) Annual Meeting.  Ms. Pava will [...]

Increased Competition Thresholds Effective October 1, 2025 This has been a whirlwind of a year in changes in grants, and now, with the beginning of the new federal fiscal year, it is [...]

Feldesman Partners Ted Waters and Mindy Pava will address the rapidly shifting federal grants environment during a DC Bar program on September 30, 2025. Their session, “New Administration, New Challenges: Understanding the [...]

Federal funding is set to lapse with the expiration of the Fiscal Year 2025 Continuing Resolution at the end of September. This means that, absent new funding legislation, a government shutdown could [...]

On September 11, 2025, the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington preliminarily stopped the administration’s reinterpretation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (“PRWORA”) [...]

On September 10, 2025, the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island in State of New York, et al., v. USDOJ, et al., 25-cv-00345 (D.R.I.), granted the States’ Motion [...]

Late last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) posted without any fanfare the promised revision to the HHS Grants Policy Statement (GPS), effective October 1, 2025.  This updated [...]