InCommon@NSF Bill Altmire Acting Branch Chief for the Telecommunications Branch Project Leader, eAuthentication Ardoth Hassler Senior Information Technology Advisor & Associate Vice President for University Information Services Georgetown University December 12, 2008

NSF is joining InCommon Status: Agreement reviewed Pending final approval and signatures Ready to begin testing Functionality demonstrated with FastLane at Internet2

What will our customers be able to do? Research.gov View Proposals NSF and USDA/CSREES – today Army Research Office – December 2008 More in progress Login with credentials issued by their home institution (Bronze) Create and submit Federal Financial Reports to NSF Maintain their user profiles And much more… FastLane Access and use current PI/co-PI suite of functions Perform Research Administration Use proposal and award functions

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Implementation Plans Start with a pilot program: Add FastLane next Connect Research.gov with University of California-Davis Colorado State University Georgetown University Pennsylvania State University University of Washington Have available as Research.gov functionality enhances Add FastLane next Timing: TBD

NSF Large Facilities Are Already Joining InCommon TeraGrid - piloting/testbed now - Expect XD (TG phase 3) to use it in production Ocean Observatories Initiative - In progress Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory - In progress