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In this case it wasn't even a university who did that. It is reviewers at the national science foundation. The largest federal funding agency in the US.

• jjtheblunt 3y ago
  Larger than DARPA?
  • otteromkram 3y ago
    Funding, not funded. From Wikipedia: > With an annual budget of about $8.3 billion (fiscal year 2020), the NSF funds approximately 25% of all federally supported basic research conducted by the United States' colleges and universities[0][1]. Note: That budget is ~$10 billion for FY24. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation [1] https://new.nsf.gov/about https://new.nsf.gov/about
    • robotresearcher 3y ago
      DARPA is a funding agency. It employs only admin and program management people, only about 300 of them, and spends around $4B a year, dispersing most of it to universities and third party labs. It’s leaner than the NSF, which employs five times as many people and has a budget only twice as large. Probably NSF has a large number of small-dollar grants to track compared to DARPA.
      • topkai22 3y ago
        And neither of them are the largest research funding agency. The National Institute of Health (NIH) granted $30B on a budget of $41B in FY2020.
  • robotresearcher 3y ago
    The NSF budget is roughly double DARPA’s, at ~$8B vs ~$4B in 2022. Yes folks, those numbers are suprisingly small.