The Federal Financial Report and the Research Performance Progress Report, the result of two Federal-wide streamlining efforts, will relieve grantees from the administrative burdens associated with the array of different forms and systems used by Federal research funding agencies.
Federal Financial Report: The Federal Financial Report (FFR) is replacing the Federal Cash Transactions Report (SF 272) and the Financial Status Report (FSR SF269 or SF269A). The Payment Management System has already implemented the federal cash data portion of the new report, see NOT-OD-10-038. NIH will begin pilot testing an eRA Commons solution (electronic FFR) for submission of the actual expenditure data portion of the report during August and September 2010. NIH plans to open the new financial reporting to all grantee institutions October 1, 2010, and require use of the electronic FFR for all grantee institutions as of January 1, 2011.
Research Performance Progress Report: The White House recently released the final format of the Research Performance Progress Report, a universal, standardized progress-reporting format for research and research-related activities for Federal grantees. The new progress report resulted from an initiative of the Research Business Models Subcommittee (co-chaired by Acting OER Director Dr. Sally Rockey) of the Committee on Science, a committee of the National Science and Technology Council. NIH is presently evaluating the format in light of the non-competing continuation progress report we currently use. An NIH implementation plan will be posted by January 2011.
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