Over the past decade two Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) Faculty Workload Surveys (2005 and 2012) indicate that administrative burdens associated with Federal research funding are consuming roughly 42% of an awardee’s available research time. To help address these issues, the National Science Board (Board) recently created a Task Force on Administrative Burdens. The Task Force is seeking recommendations from principal investigators for reducing the administrative workload associated with their Federal awards. Responses to this RFI will be considered as the Board develops recommendations to ensure investigators’ administrative workload is at an appropriate level.

Request for Information: Reducing Investigator's Administrative Workload for Federally Funded Research (Full RFI; PDF) There are two ways to respond:  (1) You can send your response in an email or as an attached text document (e.g., Word document) to Administrative-Reform@nsf.gov OR (2) you can enter your responses directly into the RFI PDF using the following instructions: Download and save the fillable RFI to your computer. Enter your responses directly into the PDF and save your completed PDF to your computer. Send the completed PDF as an attachment to Administrative-Reform@nsf.gov

Responses to this RFI will be accepted through May 24, 2013. Email addresses will be anonymized and responses kept confidential consistent with our obligations to comply with a judicial or administrative subpoena, or a FOIA request pursuant to 5 USC § 552. Please note that any personal information contained within the body of the email/response (i.e. signature lines) will be retained if not deleted by the sender. Any questions or inquiries should be sent to: Administrative-Reform-Inquiries@nsf.gov.

For more information about the Taskforce on Administrative Burdens, please visit the Taskforce home page.