1. Pending proposals already submitted:
Both NIH and NSF intend to award new two year stimulus awards from the
well reviewed applications they already have. NSF will not include applications
they rejected prior to October 1, 2008. NIH has not yet specified how
far back they will go to find worthwhile applications. Both NIH and
NSF will be requesting budget and work scope revisions (to fit the two
year period of the stimulus legislation) that we will submit administratively.
Some requests will be via email and, for NIH, some via the COMMONS,
the first several received have requested the revised budgets and
work-scope in one week or less. Those NIH applications submitted
as modular will require detailed two year stimulus budgets.
2. Awards already received:
NSF will not be making any supplements. NIH programs will make
administrative supplements and seek competitive supplements (to be decided
by program area -check with you program officer - some are not yet sure
and some are already requesting supplements). The separate tracking
of the stimulus awards will preclude NIH from restoring previous budget
cuts by amending the current award - administrative supplements, awarded
as separate stimulus awards will be used instead.
3. New competitive applications:
NSF and NIH will be also be funding new, not yet submitted applications.
For NSF these will be primarily for Major Research Equipment > $2M
apiece ($300M) and Research Facilities ($200M). For NIH they will be
for shared equipment ($300M), facility renovation/construction ($1B),
comparative effectiveness research ($400M), and Challenge Grants of
up to $500K/ yr. for two years ($100 - 200M). RFAs for other than NIH
Shared Instruments (due March 23rd) should follow soon.
