• Advances(formerly Risk Funds Requests)
• Cost Sharing
• Export Control(ITAR/EAR)
• Fellowship and Honorary Appointees as Principal Investigators
• SAO Management Fee Policy:
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• Definitive Policy regarding Smithsonian proposal submissions to NSF
• Administrative & Clerical Staff Salaries

Proposals-Related Procedures

• Institutional Information and Identifying Numbers Commonly Required for Proposals
• NEW: Changes to Classification of Postdoctoral Scholars on Sponsored Projects
• Proposal Preparation, Review, Submission, and Negotiation Procedures
• Preparing NSF Fastlane Proposals
• Updates to Fastlane and Research.gov effective January 26, 2015
• Preparing ST ScI Proposals
• Help Notes for Preparing ST ScI Budget Form
• Preparing Chandra Proposals
• Preparing NASA NSPIRES Proposals
• NASA China Funding Restrictions
• NASA Inflation Tables, to be used for all new NASA proposals (April 2014)
• Preparing JPL SPITZER SPOT Proposals
• Preparing Proposals through Grants.gov
• Preparing National Institute of Health (NIH) Proposals

Post-Award Procedures

• Requesting a No-Cost Extension
• Equipment Purchase and/or Screening of Government Equipment and the Purchasing of Upgrades/Enhancements
• Review of Seminannual, Annual and Final Reports and Other Deliverables
• Preparing NSF Reports
• Requesting Foreign Travel Approval
• Export Compliance Procedures (Goes to Export Compliance Policies & Procedures page)

Award Closeout Procedures

• SAO Closeout Procedure for Government and Trust Funded Fixed-Price Awards