The National Science Foundation (NSF) released FAQs for the May 2020 Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), NSF 20-087. Beginning October 1, 2020, hard deadlines will be removed for Small project proposals submitted to the Core Research Programs in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). These are CISE divisions for Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF), Computer and Network Systems (CNS), and Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS). Small project proposals may be submitted at any time throughout the year. The Small project proposal allows a budget up to $500,000 and three years.
