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FYI<br>
Happy Holidays!<br>
Sheila<br>
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<td>Important NASA News Regarding Research Proposal Submission</td>
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<td>Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:10:28 -0500</td>
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<td>NSPIRES-Help <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nspires-help@nasaprs.com"><nspires-help@nasaprs.com></a></td>
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<td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:NSPIRES-Help@nasaprs.com">NSPIRES-Help@nasaprs.com</a></td>
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As you may know, NASA is transitioning from its existing dated peer
review<br>
management system to a new web-based system for the submission and
review
of<br>
research proposals. The current system SYS-EYFUS is being phased
out and<br>
the new system NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and<br>
Evaluation System (NSPIRES) is being introduced for proposal submission
to<br>
solicitations released in January 2005. NSPIRES is designed
to ultimately<br>
receive complete electronic proposals for NASA research
opportunities,<br>
including NASA Research Announcements (NRAs), Announcements of
Opportunity<br>
(AOs), unsolicited proposals and Congressionally directed financial<br>
assistance. NSPIRES will also serve as the NASA gateway for receipt
of<br>
Grants.gov proposals. Currently, SYS-EYFUS supports only the
submission of<br>
proposal cover page data online and NSPIRES will initially only
duplicate<br>
that proposal capability for the present.<br>
<br>
The main change NSPIRES introduces is that the submission of online
proposal<br>
data will become the responsibility of the submitting organizations<br>
Sponsored Research Business Office (or functional equivalent), rather
than<br>
the responsibility of the Principal Investigator as at present.
This<br>
significant NSPIRES change will allow NASA to be consistent with
Grants.gov<br>
operations, the Federal Governments common site through which
organizations<br>
will also soon be able to submit grant proposals to NASA. To help
simplify<br>
this transition, NSPIRES will also offer proposal management and
tracking<br>
capabilities to the submitting organization community, with each user
able<br>
to conform NSPIRES capabilities to their unique organizational
management<br>
needs. <br>
<br>
NSPIRES is a comprehensive, user-friendly tool for responding to<br>
solicitations, preparing proposal data, working with team members
and<br>
collecting the documentation required to submit a proposal to NASA.
This<br>
enables much of this work to be performed electronically, even if hard
copy<br>
proposals are still required for the present. NSPIRES will enable
a<br>
proposer to release NASA-required online proposal data to his or her<br>
Authorizing Official over the web for submission to NASA. <br>
<br>
Phased NSPIRES registration is planned. Organizations submitting
proposals<br>
to NASA need to register first before investigators at those
organizations<br>
can register themselves and set up an affiliation with those
organizations.<br>
To begin the process, instructions on organizational registration
have<br>
already been sent to the Organizational Electronic Business Point of
Contact<br>
listed in the Central Contractor Registry (CCR
<a href="http://www.ccr.gov/">www.ccr.</a><a href="http://www.ccr.gov/">gov</a>)
at those<br>
institutions doing business with NASA. <br>
<br>
Further details on registration will be provided in subsequent
e-mails.<br>
<br>
Greg Lindsay<br>
COTR, NASA Peer Review Services<br>
Office of Infrastructure, Management, and HQ Operations <br>
NASA Headquarters
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