Core Support for the Federal Demonstration Partnership

联邦示范伙伴关系（FDP）是一项合作倡议，涉及10个联邦机构和154个管理联邦赞助研究基金的受援机构。 FDP的目标是通过简化研究的行政程序来提高研究生产力，同时保持对联邦资金的有效管理和全面负责。更具体地说，FDP努力通过最大限度地减少与联邦资助研究的行政方面有关的金钱和时间负担，最大限度地提高每联邦美元的研究绩效。自成立以来，FDP成功地减少了行政负担，同时适应了对研究管理最重要的政策和法规的不断变化。通过FDP提供的独特论坛，联邦机构官员与来自广泛的学术研究机构的行政，教师和技术代表合作，以确定和评估只能通过合作解决的政策和过程造成的不必要的负担。有针对性的项目、试点和示范是森林发展计划的重要组成部分。一旦一种新的方法被FDP内部少数愿意的机构和机构成功地进行了beta测试，它就会被FDP的成员普遍接受，而且往往会被大多数研究资助机构和接受者接受。美国国家科学院、工程院和医学院2016年关于“优化国家学术研究投资”的研究和报告通篇引用和参考了FDP的工作。 FDP在过去所完成的工作已经获得了国家的认可，目前的提案概述了进一步的计划，以最大限度地提高联邦对研究的投资。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

The Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) is a cooperative initiative involving 10 federal agencies and 154 recipient institutions managing federally sponsored research funds. The goal of the FDP is to increase research productivity by streamlining the administrative process for research while maintaining effective stewardship of and full accountability for federal funds. More specifically, FDP strives to maximize research performance per federal dollar by minimizing the monetary and time burdens associated with the administrative aspects of federally-sponsored research. Since its inception, the FDP has successfully worked to reduce administrative burden while accommodating continuous changes to the policies and regulations most significant to research administration. Through the unique forum provided by the FDP, federal agency officials work collaboratively with administrative, faculty, and technical representatives from a broad range of academic research institutions to identify and assess unnecessary burden resulting from policies and processes that can be addressed only through cooperation. Targeted projects, pilots, and demonstrations are an important and defining component of the FDP. Once a new approach is successfully beta tested by a few willing institutions and agencies within the FDP, it is generally accepted by the FDP's members and often by most research funding agencies and recipients. A study and 2016 report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on "Optimizing the Nation's Investment in Academic Research" cites and references the work of the FDP throughout. The work that the FDP has accomplished in the past has achieved national recognition and the current proposal outlines further plans for maximizing federal investments in research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.