National Science Foundation Headquarters Moving – will impact your business with NSF

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is moving its headquarters to Alexandria, Virginia. NSF will have a new mailing address effective Monday, October 2, 2017, as follows:

  • National Science Foundation
    2415 Eisenhower Avenue
    Alexandria, VA 22314

Email addresses and phone numbers for NSF employees and NSF offices will not change. NSF plans to minimize the move’s impact on the research community as much as possible. There are a few important impacts listed below:

  • Due to the move of NSF’s Data Center, NSF.gov, FastLane, and Research.gov will be unavailable from Friday, June 30 at 8 p.m. until Tuesday, July 4 at 6 p.m. EDT. This move has been scheduled around a holiday weekend to minimize downtime and reduce the impact on the research community and NSF staff. During this outage period, proposals cannot be submitted in FastLane, and project reports and cash requests cannot be submitted in Research.gov. However, previously saved information and uploaded documents in FastLane and Research.gov, including in-process proposals and reports, will be accessible after the Data Center moves.
  • The physical move to NSF’s new headquarters will be phased over a six-week period, beginning Thursday, August 24 through Sunday, October 1. During this time, you may experience delayed response times when trying to communicate with NSF employees who will be in the midst of this move.

To avoid delays in funding, many NSF programs are requesting that progress reports be submitted early to allow time for the NSF to release incremental funding prior to the shutdown 6/30/17 – 7/4/17. Check with your program officer to confirm if this applies to you.

Information For...