[Flex] [Fwd: Important NASA News Regarding Research Proposal Submission]

[Sheila Clifford]

FYI
Happy Holidays!
Sheila

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Subject: 	Important NASA News Regarding Research Proposal Submission
Date: 	Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:10:28 -0500
From: 	NSPIRES-Help <nspires-help at nasaprs.com>
To: 	NSPIRES-Help at nasaprs.com



As you may know, NASA is transitioning from its existing dated peer review
management system to a new web-based system for the submission and review of
research proposals.  The current system SYS-EYFUS is being phased out and
the new system NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and
Evaluation System (NSPIRES) is being introduced for proposal submission to
solicitations released in January 2005.   NSPIRES is designed to ultimately
receive complete electronic proposals for NASA research opportunities,
including NASA Research Announcements (NRAs), Announcements of Opportunity
(AOs), unsolicited proposals and Congressionally directed financial
assistance.  NSPIRES will also serve as the NASA gateway for receipt of
Grants.gov proposals.  Currently, SYS-EYFUS supports only the submission of
proposal cover page data online and NSPIRES will initially only duplicate
that proposal capability for the present.

The main change NSPIRES introduces is that the submission of online proposal
data will become the responsibility of the submitting organizations
Sponsored Research Business Office (or functional equivalent), rather than
the responsibility of the Principal Investigator as at present.  This
significant NSPIRES change will allow NASA to be consistent with Grants.gov
operations, the Federal Governments common site through which organizations
will also soon be able to submit grant proposals to NASA.  To help simplify
this transition, NSPIRES will also offer proposal management and tracking
capabilities to the submitting organization community, with each user able
to conform NSPIRES capabilities to their unique organizational management
needs.

NSPIRES is a comprehensive, user-friendly tool for responding to
solicitations, preparing proposal data, working with team members and
collecting the documentation required to submit a proposal to NASA.  This
enables much of this work to be performed electronically, even if hard copy
proposals are still required for the present.  NSPIRES will enable a
proposer to release NASA-required online proposal data to his or her
Authorizing Official over the web for submission to NASA.

Phased NSPIRES registration is planned. Organizations submitting proposals
to NASA need to register first before investigators at those organizations
can register themselves and set up an affiliation with those organizations.
To begin the process, instructions on organizational registration have
already been sent to the Organizational Electronic Business Point of Contact
listed in the Central Contractor Registry (CCR www.ccr. 
<http://www.ccr.gov/>gov <http://www.ccr.gov/>) at those
institutions doing business with NASA. 

Further details on registration will be provided in subsequent e-mails.

Greg Lindsay
COTR, NASA Peer Review Services
Office of Infrastructure, Management, and HQ Operations
NASA Headquarters
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