Save the Date – Forthcoming NASA Grant Policy Video Series

Please see the following message to the NASA grants community from the NASA Headquarters Office of Procurement. 

As you know, many of NASA’s grant and cooperative agreement policies were recently revised, and those revisions became effective for all new and amended awards issued on or after October 1, 2024. These policy revisions were enacted to streamline and simplify policy, adopt Office of Management and Budget (OMB) revisions to Title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations (2 CFR), an d ensure NASA’s compliance with other statutory, regulatory, and policy requirements. Two major documents were released on October 1 to effectuate new policies and requirements: 1) the NASA Grant and Cooperative Agreement Manual (GCAM) and 2) the NASA Grant and Cooperative Agreement Terms and Conditions (T&Cs). T he GCAM provides grant applicants and recipients with NASA-specific policy and guidance throughout the pre-award, award, post-award, and closeout phases of the grant life cycle. The T&Cs outline general and award-specific requirements that govern NASA’s grants and cooperative agreements.

To provide training on the revised GCAM and T&Cs, NASA’s Grant Policy and Compliance (GPC) team will be releasing a series of three training videos. The following training episodes will be released in December 2024 on NASA’s YouTube Grants Playlist.

• Episode 1 – Revisions to the NASA Grant and Cooperative Agreement Manual (GCAM)
  • Release date – Friday, December 6
  • In this episode, NASA will provide an introduction to the GCAM, an overview of major revisions in the 2024 edition, and a discussion of what those revisions mean for applicants and recipients

• Episode 2 – Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending Support (CPS) Disclosure Requirements
  • Release date – Friday, December 6
  • Wondering where to find the new disclosure forms? Not sure which activities are required to be disclosed? Curious about how to make a post-award disclosure? These and other questions will be addressed in a quick tutorial that will provide an overview of new biosketch and CPS disclosure requirements found in the 2024 GCAM.

• Episode 3 – Revisions to the NASA Grant and Cooperative Agreement Terms and Conditions
  • Release date – Friday, December 13
  • This episode will cover the 2024 revisions to NASA’s general and special award terms and conditions. Topics to be discussed include new requirements for grants recipients, the T&C’s new and improved format and structure, and incorporation of what was formerly referred to as the Research Terms and Conditions into NASA’s general T&C template.

Be sure to mark your calendars!

In the meantime, we encourage you to consider viewing some of the existing grant training videos available on the NASA YouTube Grants Playlist.