National Science Foundation has been linked to several taxpayer problems:

Shrimp on a Treadmill using taxpayer money
http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2014/11/shrimp_on_a_treadmill_worthwhi.html

In the above link, watch how the liberal media machine "circles the wagon" & attempts to justify it.

National Science Foundation and waste, fraud & abuse
https://www.protectingtaxpayers.org/blog/a/view/national-science-foundation-wastes-billions-of-dollars

Any organization that extols the virtue of science above all else surely isn't the best partner? Ideally, if the vision of BBP has changed, and is now to turn its mining efforts into a cure for cancer, surely linking into a secular grid is not the best way to accomplish this.