GMAS will be unavailable on Thursday, March 26th starting at 7PM for a release which includes enhancements, minor bug fixes, and some technical changes.

Some of the enhancements include:

• Displaying preferred name (if available) on the GMAS welcome screen
• Removal of the link for the legacy Foreign/Overseas approval (replaced by the new international collaboration and activities approval)
• Removal of the ability to enter final figures when there is an open segment revision
• Deleting a request with associated OAIR...

Read more about GMAS will be unavailable the evening of Thursday, March 25, 2021 (starting at 7:00 pm) until the start of business on Friday, March 26, 2021 for the March 2021 release.

GMAS will be unavailable on Wednesday, February 10th starting at 7PM for an upcoming release which includes additional enhancements for the new Outside Activity and Interest Reporting (OAIR) approval, as well as some bug fixes.

Some of the OAIR enhancements include:

• A new Outside Activity and Interest Reporting (OAIR) approval screen
• "Generated by" information on the approval list screen
• Ability to override the OAIR status for approvals associated to non-HUID people
• Non-HUID indicator on approval statuses...

Read more about GMAS will be unavailable the evening of Wednesday, February 10, 2021 (starting at 7:00 pm) until the start of business on Thursday, February 11, 2021 for Release 1_56.02

GMAS has a scheduled release Tuesday night, the 11th, and will be unavailable starting at 7:00 PM until the start of business on Wednesday, August 12th. This release includes enhancements and bug fixes to the International Collaboration and Activity and Cost Sharing approvals, as well as other bug fixes and improvements. 

For full release notes please visit GMAS Release 1_54.3.

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Read more about GMAS will be unavailable Tuesday, August 11th from 7:00 PM until the start of business on Wednesday, August 12th for release 1_54.3

GMAS has a scheduled release this weekend. The application will be unavailable starting at 7pm on Friday, April 24th. The new release will be available at the start of business on Monday, April 27th. This release includes a redesign of the cost sharing form and cost sharing approval, a new cost sharing request, new electronic signature for Initials and Renewal, and more. For full release notes please visit GMAS Release 1_53. Read more about GMAS Unavailable this Weekend for Release 1_53, available on April 27, 2020

GMAS cost sharing enhancements will be available on Monday, April 27.

In preparation, the GMAS team & the Cost Sharing Committee have been hosting the traditional “Roadshows” over the past few weeks.  However, for this release they were presented via Zoom.  

We have made a Zoom recording of the...

Read more about GMAS Cost Sharing Enhancements – Roadshow Presentation Available

GMAS has a scheduled release this weekend. The application will be unavailable starting at 7pm on Friday, November 15th. The new release will be available at the start of business on Monday, November 18th. This release includes integration with ESTR, adding project summary to the initial and renewal request entry screen, adding the A21 code at the top of the segment homepage, and more. For full release notes, please visit GMAS Release 1_52...

Read more about GMAS Release 1_52 available Monday, November 18th

GMAS WILL BE UNAVAILABLE STARTING AT 7PM EST ON FRIDAY, April 5th FOR A SCHEDULED RELEASE. It will be available again no later than 8:00AM EST Monday, April 8th. Details of this release include:

• New proposal budget view and entry for Initial and Competing renewal proposals
  • Reduced budget screens from 18 to 2
  • For more information, view the new Initial and Competing Renewal Budget Entry...

Read more about GMAS release 1_49 this weekend

GMAS will be unavailable tonight starting at 6pm for the implementation of the GMAS 1_48 release. This release includes full system-to-system retirement, a new interfaculty involvement entry screen, and a new requests dashboard. For full release notes, please visit the GMAS Release 1_48...

Read more about GMAS Release Outage Tonight, December 13th at 6PM

As part of Harvard’s larger move to the Cloud, the Harvard Data Warehouse (HDW) will migrate from the data center at 60 Oxford St., Cambridge to Amazon Web Services (Cloud).

From 8 p.m. on Thursday, September 20th through Monday, September 24, as the migration is in process, the Harvard Data Warehouse will be unavailable.

As a result, certain Financial, Sponsored and/or Human Resource data in GMAS will be stale as of the end of the business day on Wednesday, September 19. GMAS will be brought up to date by 9am on Tuesday, September 25 when the HDW is back to normal...

Read more about Harvard Data Warehouse (HDW) migration and outage, Sept. 20-24

Read more about FSS Applications Website Moving to HUIT

There will be a GMAS release this weekend. GMAS will be unavailable starting at 12AM, April 7th, and will be available again by 7AM, April 9th. This release focuses mainly on FIRST and Subrecipient Monitoring.

FIRST

This release includes the first wave of enhancements for improving and extending the automation for generating sponsored invoices and financial reports directly from GMAS, reducing the reliance on paper for the workflow of preparing and approving financial deliverables, and Improving visibility...

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GMAS will be available during the winter break with the following exceptions:

Please have new account set up requests to your pre-award office according to the following schedules:

• to OSP no later than 12 p.m. on Monday, December 18, 2017
  • proposals deadlines for OSP can be found here:...

Read more about GMAS Winter Recess Schedule

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...

Read more about System to System (S2S) is Getting Retired - January 2018

GMAS will be unavailable on Thursday, July 13th starting at 7pm for another stabilization release. The system should only be down for about an hour. The release will include additional fixes to bugs that were introduced as a result of the May 22nd release. 

• Fixed bug which incorrectly generated approvals for OAR and COI when TBD Investigator is added to research team
• Fixed additional bugs related to associating a TBD with an 'Investigator flag' to a proposal
• Fixed bug which prevented people from being added to notifications list when...

Read more about GMAS Release this Thursday

GMAS will be unavailable on Thursday, June 8th starting at 7pm for another stabilization release. The system should only be down for about an hour. The release will include additional fixes to bugs that were introduced with the May 22nd release. 

• Fixed bug on the "Edit proposal information" screen that resulted in the COI approval disappearing.
• Fixed bug which caused the inclusion enrollment form to map incorrect totals to the PDF preview on system to system proposals.
• Fixed logic on person email addresses to be more flexible (...

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