December 14, 2006
	Federal Demonstration Partnership January 8 & 9, 2007 National Academies 2100 C Street NW Washington DC

Draft Agenda
Sunday January 7, 2007
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.	Welcome Reception	Executive Dining Room C Street Entrance
Monday January 8, 2007
7:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.	Registration Continental Breakfast	C Street Entrance Great Hall
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.	New Attendee Orientation Presentation	Board Room
8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.	Welcoming Remarks and Introduction to Meeting Sessions Nancy Wray, FDP Chair; and Joe Konstan FDP Vice-Chair	Auditorium
9:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.	Plenary - Federal Agency Updates FDP Agency Representatives: Joe Ellis, National Institutes of Health; Joanna Rom, National Science Foundation; Tom Weber, National Science Foundation; Ellen Danus, US Department of Agriculture; Erin Daly, US Department of Agriculture; , Army Research Office; Kathy Wetherell, Air Force Office of Scientific Research; , Office of Naval Research; , US Department of Energy; Mildred Lee, Environmental Protection Agency; Jamiel Commodore, NASA; , Army Medical Research and Material Command; Tom Cooley, Chair, FFATA Grants Committee; Merrilea Mayo, GUIRR Background info on FFATA/Legislation	Auditorium
10:30 a.m. –10:45 a.m.	Break	Great Hall
10:45 a.m. – Noon	Committee and Task Force - Concurrent Session 1
	Audit Committee Facilitators: James P. Becker, Indiana University and Lynn Johnson, Colorado State University Topic: Review changes to A-133 Pilot Demonstration with intent to finalize and begin the process of capturing pilot data prior to May meeting.	Lecture Room
	Faculty Committee Topic: Committee Business	Members Room
	ERA – NIH Updates &  Discussion on Process Sharing Topic: Megan Columbus will provide information on the NIH process for the February R01 submissions using Grants.gov. Following this topic, a general discussion on 'Process Sharing' between agencies and institutions will be addressed. Michelle Powell from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Using the specific example of 'Export Control', we will ask if there is interest in sharing processes and tools with other institutions  using agency guidelines. Audience feedback is encouraged.	Auditorium
Noon. – 1:15 p.m.	Lunch	Great Hall
	Faculty Lunch:	Members Room
1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.	Plenary – Update: Shortening the NIH Grant Review Process and the NIN Grant Application Dr. Toni Scarpa, National Institutes of Health	Auditorium
2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.	Committee and Task Force - Concurrent Session 3
	ERA – Grants.gov Applicant System-to-System Options & Solutions Topic: Dick Keogh will moderate a panel discussion on considerations for those planning on implementing S2S. Panelists include Steve Dowdy from MIT, Jennifer Flach and Sheri Cummins from NIH, and Debbi Nixon from Duke University.	Auditorium
	Subawards Session Co-Chairs: Susan Boone U of Chicago and George Gardner, National Institutes of Health Topic: Committee Business - Agenda	Lecture Room
	Effort Reporting Tutorial/Project Certification Update Faculty/Speakers: Andy Rudcczynski, Yale University; Joe Ellis, National Institutes of Health Presentation	Members Room
3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.	Break	Great Hall
3:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.	Committee and Task Force - Concurrent Session 4
	Terms & Conditions Committee Facilitators: Jean Feldman, National Science Foundation; David May, California Institute of Technology	Lecture Room
	ERA – Update on Security Issues Topic: Peter Alterman from NIH/CIT will provide information on InCommon and the Central Authentication Framework (CAF) collaboration between institutions and the Federal eGov efforts. This will be of interest to those concerned about your institution becoming a Certificate Authority (CA) in light of increasing demands for authentication when using agency portals. Recently, ONR issued a directive that visitors to its administrative portals must obtain a PKI certificate for those individuals, and that the certificates come from one of three approved CA. Ken Forstmeier from Pennsylvania State University will provide an institutional perspective on their efforts with CAF and inter-federation authentication.	Auditorium
	Emerging Research Insitutions Presenters: Dr. Robert Barnhill; Dr. Marigold Linton Topic: Lessons Learned from the Kansas University / Haskell Indian Nations University Experiment in Large School-Small School Administrative Partnering	Members Room
5:00 p.m. –6:30 p.m.	Reception	Great Hall
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
7:30 a.m. –9:00 a.m.	Continental Breakfast	Great Hall
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.	Membership Standing Committee Co-Chairs: Joanna Rom, National Science Foundation, and Donna Helm, Johns Hopkins University Topic: Committee Business	Board Room
9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.	Committee and Task Force - Concurrent Session 5
	Faculty Standing Committee Co-Chairs: Joe Konstan, University of Minnesota, and Gilda Barabino, Northeastern University Topic: Working session on demonstration development	Member’s Room
	Open Slot	Lecture Room
	ERA - Managing DUNS/CCR/Grants.gov registrations & Report on Federal Directory Pilot Brian Williams from Dunn & Bradstreet (D&B) will provide information on how institutions might work with D&B to review and update their family tree of Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) information. Kim Deutsch from NSF and Ron Splittgerber from Colorado State University will provide information on the FDP Federal Directory Pilot.	Auditorium
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.	Break	Great Hall
10:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.	Committee and Task Force - Concurrent Session 6
	ERA - Grants.gov updates, suggested enhancements	Auditorium
	Topic: Terry Nicolosi and Vince Sprouls from Grants.gov, and Eleanor Robinson, Project Lead for Anteon will provide updates on Grants.gov, the move from PureEdge to Adobe submission process. This will be followed by a Panel Discussion on suggested enhancements to Grants.gov moderated by David Wright. Panelists will include Tammy Custer from Cornell, Bob Beattie from University of Michigan and Steve Dowdy from MIT.
	Research Business Model Update Facilitator: Geoff Grant, Office of Science and Technology Policy	Lecture Room
	Contracts Facilitators: Alexandra A. McKeown, University of Maryland; Carol Zuiches University of Washington; and Rosemary Hamill, National Institutes of Health Agenda	Members Room
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.	Plenary – Federal Research Budget Speaker: Kei Koizumi, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Topic: The budget outlook for the federal agencies for 2007, and how that might or might not be affected by the continuing resolution and the change in House & Senate leadership	Auditorium
12:15 p.m.	FDP Meeting Adjourns