For many years, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has provided the opportunity for scientists, engineers, and educators to rotate into the Foundation as temporary Program Directors, advisors, and leaders. Many of our rotators, who are an integral and valued part of the NSF workforce, come to the agency through the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) program. As part of the continuing effort to enhance the administration of temporary personnel at NSF under the IPA program, the following changes are being implemented in FY 2017 for all new IPA agreements:
- NSF will pilot a mandatory 10% cost sharing of the IPA’s academic-year salary and fringe benefits. Unrecovered indirect costs may not be used to fulfill this IPA cost sharing requirement.
- Lost consulting payments are no longer a reimbursable cost element.
Please note that these changes do not apply to existing agreements (including extensions or renewals thereof) for IPAs currently assigned to NSF, or for prospective IPAs whose appointment memos have already gone forward to HRM and are currently being negotiated. The cost sharing pilot will apply to all new IPA agreements initiated in FY 2017, including those for executive- and program-level staff, but not to current NSF IPAs.
Questions should be referred to Ms. Gerri Ratliff, Deputy Division Director, Human Resources Management, NSF.