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Apologies if this interpretation is off-base, but I don't think it's a good thing that there is a nascent cottage industry of "software dev firms" that are elbowing their way into these grants. That is another glaring warning sign that what the NSF is doing right now is grossly inconsistent with what it is _supposed_ to be doing.

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Oh not at all. To be totally clear what we do is build websites for research centers, help write articles about their research and run their newsletters. We aren’t claiming (or trying) to do any research or take any research funds.

But occasionally those research centers have needed help on the cloud side setting up servers to do their research. So we’ve supported them there, but again mainly in an IT/programming capacity.

We aren’t competing for grants. We leave that to the scientists. :-)

Our company is KZN Consulting (kznconsulting.com) and our product is SimplyScholar.com

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