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What Lies Ahead? Sarah Waldemar Pamela A. Webb Increased Regulatory Requirements and Oversight • Audits – Recent trend of increase in major audits – Dissatisfaction with A-133 – Impact of SAS-112 • Divergence of opinion between agency IG offices and agencies over proper oversight • Conflict of interest debate – NIH – Department of Education Increased Regulatory Requirements and Oversight (cont’d) • Business Ethics & Conduct • Training in Conduct of Research • Terrorism – – – – Select Agents Fingerprinting/Background Checks DHS Chemical Facilities Inventory & Standards Data Security Audit Hot Topics • • • • • • Research Misconduct International agreements Labor Audits and Effort reporting Allocation methodology Cost-sharing Subrecipient monitoring Deep Watchfulness … • Pressure to reduce F&A – DOD 35% TDC F&A Cap • Increase in agency divergence from policy – Increasing incidents of federal agencies promoting reduced F&A – Dept. of Ed issue of minimum allowable effort • Increase in international research • Interdisciplinary research Impact of E-Research Administration will be Profound • Systems development costs and timelines will promote standardization – For better or for worse? • E-proposal development & S2S submission will spread rapidly – InfoEd, COEUS/Kuali, Cayuse, and others – Non-federal agencies will eventually “jump on the bandwagon” • Integrated research administration systems will follow, but slowly Movement Away from “Standard” Proposal Deadlines • Grants.Gov promotes more “staggering” of deadlines • Emphasis on more rapid proposal review cycles • NIH’s recent movement to allow selected “continuous submission” for appointed reviewers New Emphasis on Public Disclosure of Funding & Results • FFATA requirements • NSF plans to publish grant results on its web site or Research.Gov • NIH’s new requirement mandating upload of peer-reviewed articles accepted for publication into PubMed • ClinicalTrials.Gov Registration Greater public awareness of importance and value of research? First Hints of a Genuine “Common Face to the Government” • Watch – Cross-agency status checks – FFATA type data • FDP Terms and Conditions authorized to now become A-110 standard • New Federal Financial Report “Transformative” or “Innovative” Science • NSF updates review criteria • NSF adding new “early concept” funding programs – TIGUR – EAGER • NIH Roadmap – Pioneer Awards – New Innovator Awards