Sept. 29: Important Deadline for End of FastLane

Grant recipient organizations need to act quickly — if they haven’t already done so — to access certain files currently in the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) FastLane system. Letters of intent, proposals and supplemental funding requests will remain accessible in FastLane only until Sept. 29, and they will not be transferred to Research.gov.

However, the reviews and summaries for proposals submitted in FastLane will be available in Research.gov. FastLane users should download or print FastLane submitted and in-progress letters of intent, proposals and supplemental funding requests by this deadline if they wish to have copies of these documents currently in FastLane.

Two additional FastLane changes kick in on Sept. 29:

• It is the last day to submit proposal file updates and budget revisions in FastLane (deadline: 5 p.m. submitter’s local time).
• The FastLane homepage at www.fastlane.nsf.gov will shut down at 11 p.m. Eastern Time.

Beginning Sept. 30, the following changes will be implemented:

• The FastLane homepage URL will redirect to the Research.gov homepage.
• Access to FastLane proposal review and panelist functions will be from the Research.gov homepage using the links indicated by an "F" icon displayed to the left of each FastLane functionality link.
• Links to decommissioned FastLane functionality (i.e., FastLane proposal file updates, budget revisions and proposal downloads) will be removed from the Research.gov homepage.
• FastLane homepage top navigation bar tabs will be removed.

Link: https://www.research.gov/research-web/content/fldecomm.