Government Shutdown
October 1, 2025
The Federal government has shut down all non-essential spending operations as of midnight 10/1/2025. RIT is monitoring communications from federal funding agencies to see how this may impact RIT. SRS continues to monitor sponsor communications, agency websites, and various IHE associations such as COGR for guidance and will share new information as it becomes available.
Select federal sponsor memos/guidance regarding federal government shutdown
Research Security Training
September 30, 2025
Federal regulations concerning Research Security continue to mature as cloud computing, AI, and digital records become the primary method for using, storing, and publishing funded research data. Most federal agencies now require research security training for all researchers who are named or paid on sponsored research funding.
NFA Module Live
September 1, 2025
The Novelution Non-Financial Agreement (NFA) module is now live. This module must be used to request:
Please visit - https://www.rit.edu/srs/novelution-nfa-module - for instructions.
NASA - Updated Reporting Guidelines
August 12, 2025
To help improve the submission process of the Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR), NASA has implemented a new webform for our submitting required performance reports.
Effective August 13, 2025, all RPPRs must be submitted via the webform available at the following link: https://www.nasa.gov/grant-cooperative-agreement-research-performance-progress-report-submission/
Novelution NFA Module
August 6, 2025
Starting September 1, 2025 Sponsored Research Services will be utilizing the Novelution system for all Non-Financial Agreement (NFA) requests. This includes Non-disclosure Agreements (NDA), Data Use/Transfer Agreements (DUA/DTUA), Materials Transfer Agreements (MTA), and other types of non-financial agreements related to research. Faculty and Staff will now be able to request, track, view, and amend NFAs just as they can with proposals and awards. Instructions and details may be found here - Novelution NFAs