NSF Fastlane website

Purpose of Fastlane

The purpose of FastLane is to experiment with ways to use the World Wide Web to facilitate business transactions and the exchange of information between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and its client community including researchers, reviewers, research administrators, and others doing business with NSF.

See Web site for further details

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How to Register for FastLane:

PIs/Co-PIs who have not recently submitted a proposal to NSF cannot use the FastLane Proposal Preparation application until their information has been added to the NSF PI database. This has to be entered by OSRP.

Use Sponsored Rsearch and Programs, FastLane Registration Form (PDF document) to request your registration and password information. The document can be either e-mailed (sponsoredresearch@missouristate.edu) or printed and sent through campus mail to the Office of Sponsored Research (OSRP), Carrington Hall, Room 407.

If you are already a registered user and your password is not working, contact OSP to request a new temporary password. If you are working on a project after normal business hours, you can request a new temporary password directly from FastLane at: Request Temporary Password 

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Where to Get Help: On FastLane

           FastLane home page:
                        https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/fastlane.htm
            Frequently Asked Questions: FastLane Proposal Preparation:
                        https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a0/about/a1faq.htm
            Instructions for Preparing and Submitting a Standard NSF Proposal via FastLane:
                        https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a1/newstan.htm
            PI Tip Sheet for Proposal Preparation
                        https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a0/about/pitips.htm
            Instructions for Submitting a Proposal
                        https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a0/about/submission.htm
            FastLane PDF Creation Tip and Pointers:
                        http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a1/pdfcreat.htm
            Ten Steps to Preparing a Proposal
                        https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a0/about/10steps.htm
            Frequently Asked Questions on Fastlane:
                      https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/faq.Faq
            FastLane User Support:
                        1-800-673-6188.
            Missouri State - Office of Sponsored Research and Programs
                        mailto:sponsoredresearch@missouristate.edu?subject=Comments/Questions%20on%20FastLane

 

 

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