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Re:"I couldn't move for a postdoc. Fellowship reviewers pena... by robotresearcher on Saturday November 04, 2023 @01:14AM (#38138349)
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.

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Re:"I couldn't move for a postdoc. Fellowship reviewers pena... by topkai22 on Saturday November 04, 2023 @01:36AM (#38138471)
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.
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