Core Support for the Federal Demonstration Partnership

联邦示范伙伴关系（FDP）是一项合作倡议，涉及管理联邦资助研究基金的10个联邦机构和217个受资助机构（上一阶段为154个机构）。其目标是通过简化研究的行政程序来提高研究效率，同时保持对联邦基金的有效管理和全面问责制。更具体地说，FDP努力通过减少与联邦资助研究的行政方面相关的金钱和时间负担，最大限度地提高每一联邦资金的研究绩效。自成立以来，自民党成功地减轻了行政负担，同时适应了对研究行政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流程所造成的不必要负担。有针对性的项目、试点、调查和示范是FDP的重要和决定性组成部分。一旦一种新方法在FDP内的一些有意愿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，通常也会被大多数研究资助机构和接受者所接受。成员机构可以，并且经常使用FDP作为他们正在考虑和/或即将需要实施的潜在变化的声音板。来自研究资助机构的拨款官员在每年举行三次的年会期间向FDP成员报告政策、时间表和实践方面即将发生的变化，并公开征求社区的反馈和反应，包括积极的和消极的。公开、自由地交流信息和思想的机会是无价的。整个赠款社区受益，因为机构能够在实施之前了解和解决拟议的变化对受助者的影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

The Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) is a cooperative initiative involving 10 federal agencies and 217 recipient institutions (up from 154 institutions in the prior phase) managing federally sponsored research funds. The goal 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, surveys, 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.Member agencies can, and routinely do, use the FDP as a sounding board for potential changes that they are considering and/or will soon be required to implement. Grants officers from research funding agencies report out to the FDP membership during the annual meetings held three times per year focused on impending changes in policies, timelines, and practices and openly solicit community feedback and reaction, both positive and negative. The opportunity for an open and free exchange of information and ideas is invaluable. The entire grants community benefits, as agencies are able to understand and address the impacts of proposed changes on grantees before implementation.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.