NSF Deletes Multiple Internal Advisory Committees

Keith’s note: NSF has ended a long list of Internal advisory committees but is keeping FACA committees: According to an internal NSF memo: “What is the status of NSF’s advisory committees?”: “Consistent with the President’s February 19, 2025, executive order, Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, the following federal advisory committees are disestablished as of April 15, 2025:” (long list below)

• Advisory Committee for Biological Sciences
• Advisory Committee for Business and Operations
• Advisory Committee for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
• Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure
• Advisory Committee for Engineering
• Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education
• Advisory Committee for Geosciences
• Advisory Committee for Integrative Activities
• Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering
• Advisory Committee for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
• Advisory Committee for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
• Advisory Committee for STEM Education

The following advisory committees are required in statute and will therefore continue to meet and provide advice to the NSF under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA):

• Alan T. Waterman Award Committee
• President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science
• Advisory Committee for Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Advisory Committee for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships
• Committee for Equal Opportunity in Science and Engineering (CEOSE)