The PIN may be requested via phone call or via email, but the request must come directly from the investigator. For security reasons, requests via graduate students or administrative staff cannot be honored. Once a PIN number is assigned, the investigator may share it with departmental staff or others in their laboratory. This decision is at the discretion of the individual investigator. After a proposal is logged in at NSF and an acknowledgment of receipt containing the NSF - assigned proposal number has been received, the status of that proposal will be available through FastLane.
Information is updated nightly as the proposal is routed through the review process.
Click on the Proposal Status icon. PIN Number Click on the button labeled Get Proposal Status. Electronic Proposal Preparation and Submission Effective immediately, you may prepare your entire proposal electronically, using FastLane. Scientific text must be prepared in a word processing program such as Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, or a text processing program that can be converted to a .pdf file using Adobe Acrobat. To eliminate redundant data entry, you can prepare templates for future proposals.