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S U M M A R Y


DIARY: June 15, 1999 07:13 PM Tuesday; Rod Welch

Prepare NSF proposal for re-submission.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Obtain forms from NSF Website to submit proposal
3...Format Instructions
4...Cover Page
5...Certification on Back of Cover Page
6...Project Summary
7...Principal Investigator Information
8...Technical Proposal - 9 copies
9...Table of Contents - part 1
10...Identification and Significance of Innovation - part 2
....Counterintuitive Design Requires Support for KM Research
11...Phase I Technical Objectives - part 3
12...Phase I Research Plan part 4
13...Commercial Potential - Part 5
14...Use cases for "intelligence" applications.....
15...Company Information and Management Team - Part 6
16...Consultants and Subawards - Part 7
17...Equipment, Instrumentation, Computers and Facilities - part 8
18...Equivalent or Overlapping Proposals other Federal Agencies - Part 9
19...Current, Pending Support of PI and Senior Personnel - Part 10
20...Summary Proposal Budget - Part 11
........Counterintiutive Design KM Requires Funding by Government
....NSF Summary Budget Form, Attachment D, Needs Edits
....Summary Budget does not display consistently by browser and Print
21...Prior SBIR/STTR Prior Awards - Part 12

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1...Internet Explorer crashed again printing Principal Investigator form,

CONTACTS 

SUBJECTS
Cover Submit via FastLane
Title of Proposal
Proposal ID Kit Number
FastLane Down for Maintenance
FastLane Could Not Print Cover,
Format Printed Report
Submission by Internet/FastLane
Submission by Printed Media
Forms Obtained from SBIR OA 990409
Proposal Forms Not Available

1712 -    ..
1713 - Summary/Objective
1714 -
171401 - Follow up ref SDS 45 0000, ref SDS 44 0000.
171402 -
171403 - Proposal forms were not at the designated web site, ref SDS 0 2096;
171404 - found them at site provided by Rick Shindell, ref SDS 0 5711; except
171405 - forms for the cover sheet and Project Summary were were not available.
171406 - ref SDS 0 1539  Overcame difficulties printing NSF forms, and prepared
171407 - proposal.
171408 -
171409 -     [On 990616 submitted proposal via Fed Ex. ref SDS 47 0001]
171410 -
171411 -     [On 990616 reviewed proposal preparation process. ref SDS 47 2714]
171412 -
171413 -     [On 990621 Fed Ex delivered proposal on 990617, but Joe had not
171414 -     seen it. ref SDS 50 0001]
171415 -
171416 -
1715 -
1716 -
1717 - Progress
1718 -
171801 -  ..
171802 - Obtain forms from NSF Website to submit proposal
171803 -
171804 - Follow up ref SDS 45 0324.
171805 -
171806 - On 990614 Joe said we could download forms for preparing a proposal,
171807 - from the NSF website. ref SDS 46 6800
171808 -
171809 -
171810 -                       http://www.nsf.gov/
171811 -
171812 -
171813 - To get the forms in the NSF instructions section 3.3 for submitting
171814 - the proposal, which are listed on 990609, ref SDS 42 2352, I opened
171815 - the NSF web site table of contents.
171816 -
171817 -                  National Science Foundation
171818 -                  SBIR/STTR 1999 - Phase I Program Solicitation
171819 -                  & Phase II Instructions
171820 -
171821 - ...at the following address...
171822 -
171823 -       http://www.eng.nsf.gov/sbir/solicitations/nsf9957/start.htm
171824 -
171825 - I clicked on...
171826 -
171827 -                         Forms (Attachments)
171828 -
171829 - ...which opened the following web site...
171830 -
171831 -     http://www.eng.nsf.gov/sbir/solicitations/nsf9957/formlist.htm
171832 - ..
171833 - This site states...
171834 -
171835 -                 NSF SBIR/STTR Forms & Attachments
171836 -
171837 -     TEMPORARY NOTICE: Downloadable HTML based forms for the FY 1999,
171838 -     NSF SBIR and STTR submissions will be available before the start
171839 -     of the National SBIR Conference in Washington, DC on 9 April,
171840 -     1999. These forms will appear on this web site, at this address --
171841 -     bookmark it and come back at that time to get them. This should
171842 -     not hamper your technical proposal development and the small delay
171843 -     will allow NSF to improve and prepare forms with which it will be
171844 -     easier for you to work and submit electronically via the Internet
171845 -     (required this year).
171846 -
171847 -     We thank you for your patience and we look forward to reading your
171848 -     proposal.
171849 -
171850 -                            ***************
171851 -
171852 - Thus, NSF attachment forms specified in Section 3.3, shown on 990609,
171853 - ref SDS 42 2352, are not still available at the specified address on
171854 - the NSF web site.
171855 -
171856 - This is the same message we encountered on 990521. ref SDS 37 9077
171857 - ..
171858 - Tried alternate address supplied by Rick Shindell....
171859 -
171860 -         http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1999/nsf9957/Attach/Formlist.htm
171861 -
171862 - ...reported on 990609. ref SDS 42 9760
171863 -
171864 -
171865 - This site lists following...
171866 -
171867 -    ..
171868 -   Attachment A
171869 -   INFORMATION ABOUT PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR/PROJECT DIRECTORS
171870 -
171871 -         http://www.nsf.gov