That's a fantastic understanding of the issue.
The challenge we will be faced with—and this will be one of the serious deliberations for this committee to consider—is that in the reimagining of all federal research funding, will there be the opportunity to create an open pool that is allocated to a college or a university that allows it to be opportunistic and address an immediate and emergent issue? The whole world came to a stop for COVID, but the whole world had to respond quickly. The coffers were opened.
When an opportunity presents itself to a college or a university, is there an open pool that it can draw from quickly that is already allocated to the institution, and not back to the feds?