NASA Procedures and Guidelines
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NPR 5810.1 Eff. Date: October 18, 2004 Cancellation Date: October 07, 2021	Standard Format for NASA Research Announcements (NRAs) and other Announcements for Grants and Cooperative Agreements (Updated w/Change 2, July 16, 2012)
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Chapter 1. Policy

1.1 Background

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a policy directive, "Format for Financial Assistance Program Announcements." on June 17, 2003, to establish a standard format for Federal agency announcements of funding opportunities under programs that award discretionary grants or cooperative agreements. The format is designed so that similar types of information are grouped in the same sections in announcements of different Federal funding opportunities. A Governmentwide format provides easy access to the information about Federal opportunities. There is text in each of the format's sections to describe the types of information that an agency shall include in that section of an actual announcement. The Federal awarding agencies jointly developed this format as part of their grant streamlining efforts to implement the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999.

1.2 Use of the Standard Announcement Format

Requirement initiators shall use the standard announcement format for all NASA announcements of funding opportunities under programs that may award grants or cooperative agreements, including NASA Research Announcements (NRAs).

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