What is the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP)?
The Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) is a cooperative initiative among federal agencies and institutional recipients of federal funds. It was established to increase research productivity by streamlining administrative processes and minimizing the administrative burden on principal investigators while maintaining effective stewardship of federal funds. On July 1, 1996, the University of Pennsylvania became a member of the FDP. If you are a researcher and a recipient of federal grants, you have benefited from FDP successes, which include ninety-day pre-award spending authority, institutionally approved no-cost extensions up to one additional year, and automatic carryover of unobligated funds from one budget period to the next. In its current phase (Phase IV), the FDP boasts ninety institutional members, ten federal agencies, and two professional organizations. Given the ever-increasing federal regulatory environment and the strain on the relationship between academe and the feder
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