1 Process for a Research Grant National Institutes of Health IMPAC II Center for Scientific Review Study Section Institute Advisory Councils & Boards Assign to IC & IRG/Study Section Review for Scientific Merit Evaluate for Relevance Recommend Action Takes Final Action Commons Institute Director University & Research Institution Award Allocation of Funds Principal Investigator Submits Application Initiates Research Idea & Conducts Research Post-Award Administration

2 eRA Objective = Full Electronic Grants Administration 200,000,000 Pieces of Paper 200,000,000 Pieces of Paper ~ 100,000 Applicants / 2,600 Grantee Institutions Worldwide IMPAC II – NIH Transactional Database 2,300 Average Daily Users Note: Extension systems use data from IMPAC II

3 eRA Objective = Full Electronic Grants Administration ~ 100,000 Applicants / 2,600 Grantee Institutions Worldwide IMPAC II – NIH Transactional Database 2,300 Average Daily Users Note: Extension systems use data from IMPAC II NIH Commons Federal Commons Assurances Scientific Applications Certifications Other Support Project Specific Assurances Periodic Reports Progress Financial Inventions Women/minorities Final Reports Progress Financial Inventions Application Specification Grants Policy Assignment Priority Score Summary Statement Notice of Grant Award Post-Award Correspondence

4 Past IMPAC I Mainframe Salute and Good Bye to IMPAC 1 Over Thirty Years of Service Future Operational Platform Software Development Business Process Re-engineering NIH’s Link to e-Government eRA J2EE NIH’s Partnerships Past IMPAC I Mainframe Present IMPAC II/ Commons Client Server

5 Why Is This Important to You – This Year  Once your organization registers you can register to look up on line:  Where your competing grant(s) is in the process  Obtain  Identify the study section it is assigned to and click to the membership  Scores within days of the review  Summary Statement when posted  Obtain links and identify of the program officer and grants technical assistant  See your grant application  And more  Submit your progress report electronically

6  Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects (CRISP)  Interagency Edison (iEdison)  Application/Award Status  X-Train  Institutional Profile  Professional Profile  Institutional Registration and Accounts Administration  FSRs and more  E-SNAP – Progress Reports  Internet Assisted Peer Review - IAR  Competing Grant Applications * 21 additional framework modules support these applications “behind the scenes” Commons Modules * Production Target Jan. 03 For Production Target 04 For Production Initial Pilots

7 Commons Home Page Click Enter Commons Demo link in bottom left column to enter the demo.

8 Demo Home Page Select the demo_PI option from the dropdown box. Click the login button.

9 Demo_PI First Page Notice the session information in the top right corner. Next, select Status from the Main Navigation Bar.

10 Status Page Demo Click PI Status in the Sub-Navigation Bar.

This page shows the Proposal Report results for demo_PI. The user can click on the Grant Number returned from the search to access detailed information. If a Summary Statement (SS) or a Notice of Grant Award is available the user can view that as well.

13 SBIR’s Need 18 Million for Phase IIs NameGrant Title Research Orgs Product Used Phase 1 Funding Phase 2 Funding ERA Software Systems PI: Dianne Bozler Enhancements to GAMS to Include XML for the NIH Commons 5 $361,991$1,416,110 RAMS Company PI: William Kirby Test ERA Software Package with Local Control of Profiles 1542 $295,478$4,366,273 InfoEd International PI: Edward Johnson, Sr. Electronic Submission/Response System via an NIH Portal 600 $422,389$1,470,733 Cayuse, Inc. PI: Chris Harker GrantSlam eRA: Scalable electronic grants administration 675 $409,584$1,515,080 Formatta Corp. PI: David Garver Next Generation eRA: Portable Internet Date Containers 25 $504,698$3,785,541 Clinical Tools PI: Brad Tanner Electronic Submission of NIH Grant Applications 8 $499,153$5,417,697 Please indicate if you’re willing to provide funds this year…

100,0000 PI’s The Age of Interdependence 2,200 Inst. 100,0000 grants 600,000,000 transactions /yr 2 million crisp searches 13 million humans in studies