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Greetings, everyone,<br>
Just an FYI.<br>
You may already know this.<br>
Thanks,<br>
Jean<br>
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<td>FastLane and Research.gov Unavailable from Friday,
November 8 at 8:00 PM EST until Tuesday, November 12 at
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<td>Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:18:45 +0000</td>
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<td>NSF Business Applications
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:NSF_Business_Applications@NSF.GOV"><NSF_Business_Applications@NSF.GOV></a></td>
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<td>Jean Davis Taft <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jtaft@WHOI.EDU"><jtaft@WHOI.EDU></a></td>
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Science Foundation (NSF) is migrating its business
applications to a modern and flexible platform from
November 8 at 8:00 PM EST through November 12 at
6:00 AM EST. As part of this effort, NSF will also
upgrade the alpha-numeric character set used by the
FastLane and Research.gov systems to correct text
errors, such as special characters displaying as
question marks ("?") in proposals and project
reports. This migration has been scheduled over the
Veterans Day holiday weekend to minimize the impact
of the systems downtime on the research community
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cash requests cannot be submitted in Research.gov.
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