[Flex] So much for our soft start in Research.gov!

[Karen Schwamb]

Hi all,

I'm not sure how reliable the Fastlane help desk is these days - I 
recently got some information that turned out to be wrong.  They may 
also have given Donna the wrong information about the timing for use of 
research.gov for all but collaborative proposals starting March 26.

Just wanted to pass along my research.gov login experience today --

I know that I have an NSF proposal coming up, so went to research.gov 
this morning to log in and complete the PI information verification - 
that went fine.  I went to Prepare & Submit Proposals and received the 
notice below.  There seems to be conflicting information out there about 
the timing of the migration to the new system.  Looks like we are still 
in the system preview phase according to this, and that we don't submit 
our proposals through research.gov yet.

If it is accurate, the attached timeline might be useful too.

I never expected this confusion from the same folks that brought us 
fastlane!


On 3/26/2018 2:11 PM, Sheila Clifford wrote:
> Dear All -
>
> Donna had a discussion with the Fastlane Helpdesk this morning, and it
> seems that - as of today - we MUST now use Research.gov for NSF
> submissions UNLESS they are collaborative proposals.  And - as of this
> morning - it is taking up to 30min for Research.gov to dump you back to
> Fastlane to work on a collaborative.
>
> Neither Donna nor I had received, or seen, a notice of this abrupt
> change - sorry!
>
> Best Regards,
> Sheila
>
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Karen Schwamb / Administrative Associate
Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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Woods Hole, MA  02543
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