[Nsa] NEW Guidelines on Submission of Solicited and Unsolicited Proposals by NCAR to NSF

[Roger M. Wakimoto]

Dear NSA,

You have informed us on a number of occasions that salary support for 
senior personnel on "solicited" proposals submitted to NSF was one of 
your greatest concerns.  As a result, we initiated a number of 
discussions with NSF/AGS on this topic and wrote a white paper outlining 
the main reasons why we believed LT and Project Scientists should be 
able to request salary support.

AGS agreed with our arguments and sent out final guidance to NCAR. This 
1-page document was forwarded to all Directors and was discussed with 
AGS Management via videocon at the NCAR Directors' Committee Meeting 
yesterday.  There are some restrictions so please read the document 
carefully.  I should also point out that the guidance is valid starting 
today and cannot be applied retroactively (i.e., you cannot ask for 
additional salary support on a current NSF award).  Talk to your 
Directors/Managers for further clarification. Steve Nelson noted that 
since this will be applied Foundation-wide there could be some confusion 
with program officers working in other divisions/directorates.  
Questions or concerns should be addressed to Steve but the NCAR point of 
contact should be Valerie Koch (valeriek at ucar.edu).  Valerie will 
forward your issues/concerns to Steve.

The first opportunity to apply these new guidelines should be for the 
upcoming solicitation - "Interdisciplinary Research in Hazards and 
Disasters (Hazards SEES)".

I want to acknowledge and thank Rena Brasher-Alleva who worked 
diligently on the white paper and was involved in several telecons with 
AGS as we argued your case.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Roger


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Roger M. Wakimoto, Director
NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO  80307
303 497-1111
fax: 303 497-1194

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