1. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 7 Commons Home Page Click Enter Commons Demo link in bottom left column to enter the demo.

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

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

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

11. 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. 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…

14. 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