Federal Research: Information on Fees for Selected Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
Highlights
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the fees paid by the Department of Energy (DOE), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for managing their research and development (R&D) centers, focusing on the: (1) regulations governing fees; (2) annual amounts and purposes of the fees paid during fiscal year (FY) 1994; (3) uses that DOE contractors made of their funds during FY 1994; and (4) effect of 1994 contract reforms on fees for DOE centers.