"The 125-page report, entitled " Simplifying Research Regulations and Policies: Optimizing American Science," lays out a three-pronged framework to guide a cohesive national strategy toward implementing more economical regulations. Those prongs include harmonizing regulations and requirements across federal and state agencies and research institutions, ensuring that regulatory requirements match the risk related to the project, and using technology to make regulation-compliance processes more efficient."
"The rise of generative artificial intelligence and the Trump administration's deregulation push make now the right time to streamline and reduce federal scientific research regulations, argues a report the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine published Wednesday. "At a time when the scientific enterprise is under a lot of pressure-we don't want to pretend that's not true-this is also a wonderful opportunity to streamline the workload not only of researchers, but of institutions and other individuals,""
A three-pronged framework recommends harmonizing regulations across federal and state agencies and research institutions. Regulatory requirements should be matched to the level of project risk to avoid unnecessary burdens. Technology should be employed to streamline compliance processes and reduce administrative workload. A menu of 53 options addresses research security, misconduct, and grant management for interagency adoption. Researchers funded by agencies such as the NSF, NIH and DoD spend more than 40 percent of their time on compliance-related activities, creating cost and time pressures on the scientific enterprise. The political climate favoring deregulation creates an opportunity to eliminate duplicative and uncoordinated rules that increase costs and inhibit research productivity.
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