[Flex] Fwd: FastLane and Research.gov Unavailable from Friday, November 8 at 8:00 PM EST until Tuesday, November 12 at 6:00 AM EST

[Jean Davis Taft]

Greetings, everyone,
Just an FYI.
You may already know this.
Thanks,
Jean


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Subject: 	FastLane and Research.gov Unavailable from Friday, November 8 
at 8:00 PM EST until Tuesday, November 12 at 6:00 AM EST
Date: 	Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:18:45 +0000
From: 	NSF Business Applications <NSF_Business_Applications at NSF.GOV>
To: 	Jean Davis Taft <jtaft at WHOI.EDU>



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Dear Colleagues:

*Please be advised that FastLane and Research.gov will be unavailable 
from Friday, November 8 at 8:00 PM EST until Tuesday, November 12 at 
6:00 AM EST.*

**

The National 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 and NSF staff.

During this outage, there will be no access to these websites, proposals 
cannot be prepared or submitted in FastLane and Research.gov, and 
project reports and cash requests cannot be submitted in Research.gov. 
However, previously saved information and uploaded documents in FastLane 
and Research.gov, including in-progress proposals and project reports, 
will be accessible after the migration is completed.

We encourage you to share this information with your colleagues. For IT 
system-related questions, please contact the NSF Help Desk at 
1-800-381-1532 or rgov at nsf.gov<mailto:rgov at nsf.gov>. Any policy-related 
questions should be directed to policy at nsf.gov<mailto:policy at nsf.gov>.

We appreciate your understanding and apologize for any inconvenience.

Regards,

Division of Information Systems

National Science Foundation

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