Donations

What this funds

Within the Donations account, $24.28 million was carried over into FY 2026. Donations are received from organizations and individuals to fund various cooperative efforts in research and education. Pursuant to P.L. 115-414 the Good Accounting Obligation in Government Act (GAO-IG Act), the follow three tables report unresolved NSF OIG and U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommendations open for more than one year, and their associated status as of January GAO Recommendations Open One Year or Longer as of February 1, 2026 GAO Report Title (Date) GAO Recommendation Status as of Timeline to Implement GAO-25- Textile Waste: The Director of NSF, in conjunction with Open NSF plans to implement this recommendation in FY 107165 Federal Entities EPA, NIST, OSTP, and the U.S. Departments Open 2027. Should Collaborate of State and Energy, should establish an GAO-25- on Reduction and interagency mechanism to coordinate In 2025, NSF's Office of the CIO and NSF's OMB E-Gov (12/12/2024) reducing textile waste, and advancing engagements. In 2026, NSF and OMB will perform an textile recycling in the U.S. This interagency annual IT Portfolio Review in conjunction with agency IT Portfolio mechanism should identify and involve leadership and the Office of the Federal CIO. Management: OMB federal participants and should consider and Agencies Are Not leading collaboration practices, including Fully Addressing clearly defining common outcomes and Selected Statutory identifying data and resource needs. (11/14/2024) The Director of the National Science Foundation should direct its agency CIO to work with OMB to ensure that annual reviews of their IT portfolio are conducted in conjunction with the Federal CIO and the GAO Report Title (Date) GAO Recommendation Status as of FY 2027 Budget Request to Congress GAO-24- Agencies Need to The Director of the NSF should ensure that Open Since publication of the GAO report, NSF has further 106137 Address Key OMB the CIO of NSF updates guidance to put a Open centralized and formalized agency review of cloud Procurement cloud Service Level Agreement (SLA) in computing requirements contracts. This ensures that GAO-24- Requirements place with every vendor when a cloud the NSF Office of the CIO reviews and provides 106137 (9/20/2024) solution is deployed. The guidance should feedback on cloud service requirements before they include language that addresses OMB's are procured. NSF is working to formalize guidance, GAO-24- Cloud Computing: required elements for SLAs, including clear which will include language related to SLAs, by the end 106137 Agencies Need to performance metrics and remediation of FY 2026. Address Key OMB plans for non-compliance. Procurement (Recommendation 33) Since publication of the GAO report, NSF has further Requirements The Director of the NSF should ensure that centralized and formalized agency review of cloud (9/20/2024) the CIO of NSF develops guidance computing requirements contracts. This ensures that regarding standardizing cloud SLAs. the NSF Office of the CIO reviews and provides Agencies Need to are procured. NSF is working to formalize guidance, Address Key OMB The Director of the NSF should ensure that Open which will include language related to SLAs, by the end Procurement the CIO of NSF updates its guidance to of FY 2026. Requirements require that contracts affecting the Since publication of the GAO report, NSF has further (9/20/2024) agency's high value assets that are centralized and formalized agency review of cloud managed and operated in the cloud computing requirements contracts. This ensures that include language that provides the agency the NSF Office of the CIO reviews and provides with continuous visibility of the asset. feedback on cloud service requirements before they (Recommendation 35) are procured. NSF is working to formalize guidance, which will include language related to SLAs, by the end GAO Report Title (Date) GAO Recommendation Status as of Timeline to Implement GAO-24- Cloud Computing: The Director of the NSF should ensure that Open NSF intends to incorporate CIO Council-formulated 106137 Agencies Need to the CIO of NSF updates its existing Open language into contracts for high value assets one year Address Key OMB contracts for high value assets that are after the release of such guidance. As of September GAO-22- Procurement managed and operated in the cloud to 2025, the CIO Council has not released this guidance. 104411 Requirements meet OMB's requirement once guidance NSF will continue to monitor. (9/20/2024) from the CIO Council is available on language that provides the agency with NSF continues collecting, examining, and compiling Research Reliability: continuous visibility of the asset. If practices pertaining to indicators of rigor in science Federal Actions modifying the existing contract is not and engineering research that promote robust and Needed to Promote practical, the agency should incorporate reliable research. A web site linking to community Stronger Research language into the contract that will meet resources on ways of promoting rigor is being Practices (7/28/2022) OMB's requirement upon option exercise developed aiming for public release in early 2026. NSF or issuance of a new award. considers this to be the final step necessary to fully (Recommendation 36) implement this recommendation. NSF is also working The Director of NSF should collect collaboratively across the agency to continue to

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Contracts funded by this line

2 linked contracts. These are obligations — lifetime awarded money — and they are not comparable to the request above and are never added to it. No total is shown: an award linked to several lines is counted in full on each, so the sum would not be a fact.

Confidence mix · 2 certain

Linked contracts are a floor, not a census. Coverage is bounded by how distinctively a program is named and, for performer links, to RDT&E and Procurement — O&M and military construction publish no performers. Budget figures are FY2027 request dollars; contract figures are obligations. The two measure different things and must never be summed together.

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