How federal science grants normally work

19:02normally in the history of this process, the office of man of management and budget doesn't select individual science awards or grants. It's not in the process of selecting who gets what money. um that happens at each particular agency, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, NASA, Department of Energy where the experts are >> they are the ones who get to decide uh how that happens and the process is the agencies will announce a funding opportunity research researchers will submit proposals experts evaluate their merit. >> Yep. uh as you know very well in this process. Yeah. And the agency officials ultimately decide which projects get to

19:45receive awards. >> Yeah. And shout out to my dad. He's he's one of the astrophysicists that's on a lot of these panels that like decides which grants get awarded and things like that. >> And an expert being on that is something you absolutely >> want to be there. And then from there the university or research institution that receives the funding um employs the researchers. They operate the labs, they conduct the work and eventually produce what we talk about on the pod, which is the paper. So yeah, Congress funds it. >> OM establishes the rules. Agencies select and manage the grants. Researchers do the science. That's how the process has worked forever. Um,