Administrative Supplement Processing

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American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act Information Technology Challenges Armed
Forces Communications and Electronics
Association, Bethesda Chapter May 21, 2009
James Blagaich, CIO National Center for Research
Resources
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National Center for Research Resources
Accelerating research from basic discovery to
improved patient care
animal model resources
community engagement
science education
Pre-clinical
Improved patient care
Community
imaging informatics advances
research capacity training
Clinical
clinical research support
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NCRR Funding through ARRA

• 1.0 Billion for construction, repair and
  renovation
• RFA for Extramural Research Facilities
  Improvement Program (C06)
• RFA for Core Facility Renovation, Repair and
  Improvement (G20)
• 300 Million for shared instrumentation and other
  capital research equipment
• RFA for Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG)
• RFA for High End Instrumentation (HEI)
• 310 Million for scientific research
• Supplements to existing resource programs (IDeA,
  RCMI, CTSA, and BTRC.)

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NCRR ARRA Homepage
http//www.ncrr.nih.gov/recovery
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ARRA Limited Competition RFA Enabling National
Networking of Scientists and Resource Discovery

• RFA-RR-09-009
• Purpose
• To develop, enhance, or extend infrastructure to
  facilitate national discovery of individuals and
  resources to support biomedical research
• Includes a diversity of institutions (in size,
  technology sophistication, geography,
  racial/ethnic culture) ensuring broad use and
  impact
• Distributed (non-centralized) approach
• Mechanism of Support
• Resource-Related Research Projects Cooperative
  Agreement (U24)
• Funds Available
• 30 million over two years

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Information Technology Need and Challenges

• Need
• Develop processes and technology to
• Facilitate information dissemination to the
  public
• Expedite the process of workload that has
  increased exponentially
• Challenges
• Time constraints
• Incomplete requirements
• Unknown public demand
• Reporting requirements in progress

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ARRA Grant AwardsProcess and Technology

• Internet Supplement Application
• Documentum Workflow
• Google Maps

• Intranet Supplement Application

• Grant Management System
• Internet

• Teleconference
• Video Cast
• Email
• Internet
• Phone

• Grant Management
• System

SUPPORTING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
PROCESS
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Construction Grants AwardQuestions and Answers

• Process
• Request for Applications (RFA) Announced
• Program officer answers questions
• 20-50 participants, normally
• Adobe Connect and teleconference service
• Results
• Teleconference equipment overwhelmed
• Adobe connect overwhelmed

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Content Distributed NetworkStreaming Video
Office of Research Services
Studio
Akamai Streaming Service

• Akamai proprietary streaming technology
• Worlds largest fault-tolerant network
• The Service transfers original streams to
  Akamais massive, globally distributed network of
  servers

Center for Information Technology Infrastructure
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Results
NCRR Internet
Akamai Streaming Service
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ARRA Grants Awards

• Internet Supplement Application
• Documentum Workflow
• Google Maps

• Intranet Supplement Application

• Grant Management System
• Internet

• Teleconference
• Video Cast
• Email
• Internet
• Phone

• Grant Management
• System

SUPPORTING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
PROCESS
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Scientific Supplement Processing

• Solicited supplement announcement
• Question and answer period
• Delivery by Email, fax, and mail

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ARRAScientific Supplement Processing
Load Tested Rational Performance tester
Scientific Program Officer Application Review
Institution Signing Official
Funding List
eRA Commons Authentication Authorization
Intranet Review Application
Internet Supplement Application (CF)
Supplement Repository (Oracle)
Documentum Workflow
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Summary

• Difficult to anticipate public response
• Expect the unexpected over engineer solution
• Rapid Application Development
• SDLC on steroids
• Frequent requirement and design sessions with
  stakeholders
• Daily SCRUM meetings
• Technical staff know process less project
  oversight
• Something larger than another program