System to System

Correction to GMAS outage time: GMAS will be unavailable Wednesday June 7th at 6 PM

GMAS will be unavailable starting Wednesday June 7th at 6pm. The system will be available again at the start of business on Thursday. This release will address some bugs that were introduced in the recent May release, and to add a few minor enhancements. For a full list of bug fixes and enhancements, please visit the June 2023 Release page on the GMAS website.  Read more about Correction to GMAS outage time: GMAS will be unavailable Wednesday June 7th at 6 PM

GMAS unavailable starting at 6:00pm on May 4th, 2022 until the start of business on May 5th, 2022 for the May 2022 release.

GMAS will be unavailable beginning at 6PM on Wednesday May 4th. This outage is to support the upcoming May 2022 release scheduled to be available by the start of business on Thursday May 5th. The focus of this release includes enhancements to support displaying preferred names in GMAS. Additional enhancements include updates to the GMAS person feed and tracking if proposals included subrecipients, as well as bug fixes.   

Highlight of the changes in this release include:

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New Research Administration Portal now available!

The Research Administration Portal shows faculty and researchers their outstanding research administration and compliance activities in one location. The home page lists the researcher’s tasks in GMAS, including signature requests and International Collaboration and Activities approvals that need to be completed or updated. Additionally, there are pages displaying requests under development, in review, or submitted to sponsor and segments that are currently active or ended within the last twelve months. The Portal also displays...

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System to System (S2S) is Getting Retired - January 2018

You may have heard the news that S2S functionality in GMAS is going away. It’s true. As of January 25, 2018, GMAS will no longer support the system-to-system submission of proposals to Grants.gov. We wanted to provide a little background and information about the decision.

Background:​​​​​​​

  • GMAS has supported direct system-to-system (S2S) submissions to Grants.gov since 2007. 
  • The main goals of the original S2S project were to reduce duplicate entry and provide an easier entry and review interface (in 2007 Grants.gov used the PureEdge...
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GMAS Outage Feb 16, 2017 at 7:00pm

GMAS will be unavailable tonight, Feb 16, starting at 7:00pm and available again in the early morning of Feb 17.

The purpose of this outage is to enable GMAS to comply with a new Grants.gov requirement for system to system submissions using HTTPS connections. This change is behind the scenes and will not be noticeable to anyone submitting S2S through GMAS. Please visit our website for the full release notes.

GMAS Release 1_41 is this weekend (April 8 to April 10, 2016)

The April 2016 Grants Management Application Suite (GMAS) release will be available to users on Monday, April 11, 2016. This regularly scheduled release is the third official release in support of the GMAS 2.0 project.

Please note:  GMAS will be unavailable to users from 9:00PM EST on Friday, April 8, 2016 through the start of business at 9:00AM EST on Monday, April 11, 2016.

Highlighted features of this release:

Added support for NIH FORMS-D transition. GMAS supports Grants.gov system to system (S2S)  submission for...

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What to Expect in the Next GMAS 2.0 Release

Based on priorities established by the Business Steering Committee and user feedback, the GMAS 2.0 project team is preparing new system-changes to be released for April 11, 2016.

This release focuses on delivering necessary system upgrades in order to continue to support System to System functionality within GMAS. In addition to the existing S2S forms, GMAS will support 5 new NIH forms, including:

  • PHS 398 Research Plan
  • PHS 398 Cover Page Supplement
  • PHS 398 Career Development Award Supplemental Form
  • PHS Inclusion Enrollment Report
  • PHS...
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