DoD and ONR Update

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DoD and ONR Update

• NCURA Region 1 Spring Meeting
• Providence, Rhode Island
• May 9, 2007

Michael Kelly Regional Director, ONR
Boston kellym_at_onr.navy.mil
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• Office of Naval Research

• ONR has been involved in university research for
  over sixty years.

ONR Project Whirlwind in 1946 supported MITs
development of the first full scale digital
computer to utilize magnetic core memory
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ONR Mission

• Sponsors basic and applied research
• Contracts, grants, cooperative agreements
• Universities, non profits, commercial
  organizations
• Naval Research Lab
• Administers DoD and NASA awards with educational
  and nonprofit organizations
• Cognizant agency for negotiating indirect cost
  rates and audit resolution at assigned
  institutions

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Update Topics

• DoD Research Programs
• Basic Research
• Other Research Programs
• Electronic Issues
• PKI
• Electronic Payment (A Tale of Two Systems)
• PL 106-107 Grant Streamlining Initiative

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DoD Basic Research Program

• DoD (6.1) basic research budget for 2007
  approximately 1.4 Billion
• Universities receive over half
• Significant support for graduate students
• Heavily slanted towards physical sciences and
  engineering, e.g.,
• Electrical and mechanical engineering
• Metallurgy and materials research
• Math and computer science

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DoD Basic Research Program

• Annual Broad Agency Announcements of interest in
  general research areas
• ONR www.onr.navy.mil
• Long Range Scientific and Technology Program
• AFOSR www.afosr.af.mil
• Research Interests of the Air Force Office of
  Scientific Research
• U.S. Department of Army www.arl.army.mil
• Army Research Laboratory BAA
• Informal proposals/White papers encouraged

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DoD Other Research Programs

• Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
  (MURI)
• Supports teams whose efforts intersect more than
  one traditional science and engineering
  discipline
• Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate
  Competitive Research (DEPSCOR)
• To enhance capabilities of universities in
  eligible states to develop competitive research
• Currently eligible New England states
• Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont
• Proposals must be submitted through EPSCOR state
  committee

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DoD Other Research Programs

• Defense University Research Instrumentation
  Program (DURIP)
• For acquisition of major research equipment to
  augment current or develop new research
  capabilities to support technical areas of
  interest to DoD
• Proposals may request 50K to 1 million
• Young Investigator Program
• Within five years of receiving degree
• 100K/year for three years (ONR and AFOSR)
• ONR approximately 24 awards
• AFOSR approximately 15 awards
• 50K/year for three years (ARO)

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DoD Other Research Programs

• Faculty Exchanges and Summer Faculty Positions in
  DoD Laboratories
• Air Force University Resident Research Program
  (URRP)
• One year appointments at Air Force Labs
• Air Force Summer Faculty Program
• Follow on support up to 20K available
• Army Summer Faculty Research and Engineering
  Program
• Follow on support, up to 530K available
• Navy-ASEE Summer Faculty and Sabbatical Leave
  Program Research Program

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PKI Authentication

• PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) certificates will
  be required to enter a DoD System/Web Site that
  has a User ID/Password requirement
• e.g., ONR PayWeb, AdminWeb, AwardWeb
• Certificates required for each person who will
  access a DoD system
• Two approved sources for certificates
• VeriSign
• ORC

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Electronic Payment

• DFARS clause 252.232-7003
• Requires electronic submission and processing of
  contract payment requests
• Two options
• WAWF-RA (Wide Area Workflow-Receipt and
  Acceptance
• Currently limited to contracts with institutions
  under DCAA audit cognizance
• ONR PayWeb (ANSI X.12 electronic interchange
  format)
• Currently limited to Navy contracts and grants

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Electronic Payment

• WAWF testing changes that will allow processing
  of payment requests for all DoD awards, i.e.,
• Contracts (without regard to audit cognizance)
• Grants
• ONR PayWeb can be used as the front end
• Stay tuned

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PL 106-107 Update

• Grant Streamlining Initiative
• Post award workgroup
• Developed proposed standard formats or forms for
  six types of reports
• Two are not relevant to the university research
  community
• Performance Progress Report (PPR)
• Real Property Status Report (RPSR)

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PL 106-107 Update

• Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR)
• Uniform format for reporting progress on
  federally funded research
• Modeled on NSF Fastlane
• Coversheet with mandatory categories
• Accomplishments
• Changes/Problems
• Optional Categories
• Products/Outcomes
• Participants
• Impact
• Will consider format for final reports after
  progress report has been issued

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PL 106-107 Update

• Federal Financial Report (FFR)
• Proposed format for government wide financial
  reporting
• Consolidates current
• Federal Cash Transactions Report
• SF 272 and 272A
• Financial Status Report
• SF 269 and 269A
• Establishes standard reporting dates
• 3/31, 6/30, 9/30 0r 12/31

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PL 106-107 Update

• Tangible Personal Property Report (TPPR)
• Standard form
• Coversheet plus attachments
• Annual Report
• Award Closeout (Final) Report
• Disposition Request/Report
• Supplemental Sheet
• No new reporting requirements
• Standardizes annual reporting date of 30 SEP

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PL 106-107 Update

• Inventions Report (IR)
• Government wide standard data elements
• New electronic summary reporting of inventions
  form
• Interactive internet web form to be hosted on the
  iEdison site
• Interim and summary reports can be pre-populated
  with existing invention reporting data

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PL 106-107 Update

• Proposed forms were presented in a webcast
  3/8/2007
• Forms and Presentation Slides available at
• www.grants.gov
• About Grants. GOV
• Public Law 106-107
• News
• GPC Meeting Date March 8, 2007
• Next Step publication in Federal Register for
  public comment

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Questions?