As with virtually all FastLane functions, the password reset function is available all the time. Therefore, users no longer need to wait to contact the FastLane Help Desk or their Sponsored Research Office. The change is immediate. Name changes cannot be performed online. Revised Proposal Budgets PIs can now assign their Revised Proposal Budgets a PIN which can be used by other FastLane users to prepare and forward the revised proposal budget to the PI's Sponsored Research Office.
Users can now add senior personnel to their revised proposal budgets.
Frequently when revised proposal budgets are submitted, the Principal Investigator has additional material that may also need to be submitted to NSF in order for a Program Officer to make a final recommendation on the proposal. Based upon input from program offices, the user screens now have a different look and feel. The new screens in panel review include tabs which allow the selection of action type and a sort feature that will allow the user to sort proposals via a variety of column headers. Reviewer type has been added as a column header. Both systems now let reviewers download and save a proposal as a PDF file to their computer without first needing to view the proposal with Adobe Acrobat.