NCI-Frederick is now a support facility

It took a while to get a straight answer, but I finally got to the bottom of this.  The NCI-Frederick facility banned all investigator-initiated research in order to cut costs and to make the labs there solely support facilities.  The labs there are now being micromanaged by a few senior physicians at the main NCI campus.  I still believe that this is a complete travesty and a waste of hundreds of minds that could be actively assisting in the search for a cancer cure.
Fortunately, several of the most prestigious researchers at this facility have moved on and unfortunately I doubt that it will be long before NCI-F is a shell of the great haven for research that it once was.