US-based research administrator Peter Highnam will lead the newly established agency, which the government says will fund science with minimal bureaucracy.
or what science it would fund. Last year, the government announced that ARIA will free scientists from the checks and balances of the conventional grant system so that research, it said, can be funded quickly and flexibly.
The creation of ARIA has not been without controversy. In an attempt to reduce the administrative burden on the agency’s staff, the government is making it exempt from the freedom of information act, legislation that enables public access to information held by authorities. This worries science-policy researchers who say it takes away the ability to scrutinize how public money is spent.
Highnam has worked at DARPA, which has a US$3-billion annual budget, since 2018 and he has stepped up run the agency temporarily. He has previously worked at the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the DARPA spin-off the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, which funds research to help the intelligence community.
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