Summary of Required Reports and Forms Final Technical Report Final Financial Report Additional Information...

The terms of your research grant require that, at the end of LaSPACE projects, we need two final reports: the Final Technical Report and the Final Financial Report. These reports are due in the LaSPACE office 60 days after the subcontract expiration date.

FINAL TECHNICAL REPORT:

For the Final Technical Report, we need a several page write-up on the project that is suitable for transmission to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This is required by the NASA Training Grant that supplies the federal funds for LaSPACE. (We also include the report in our annual report to the Louisiana Board of Regents.) This report should describe the activities undertaken, the participants, and your assessment, as Project Director, of the success of the venture, the impact that it had (or will have), and any further plans for a continuation or for like projects. Please also include copies of reports, presentations, publications or publicity. These items should contain citations acknowledging LaSPACE/NASA support.

Deliver this final report according to the process at your campus. You may need to submit it through your Research Office first.

There is no form or specified format for this report. You may use your discretion in generating the document. However, at the least, there should be:

• A cover page which includes the project title, PI names, subcontract number or LSU account number, date, and institution.
• The narrative, as described above. While there is no minimum page length, this section should adequately describe the research and results, yet remain succinct. A suggested table of contents:
• Abstract
• Acknowledgement of LaSPACE or NASA EPSCoR Support
• Table of Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Introduction
• Objectives
• Results/Accomplishments in meeting stated goals and objectives of the project.
• Include names of undergraduate and graduate students who worked on the project). NASA requires demographics such as race, gender, and year classification.
• Conclusions/Overall Assessment
• Bibliography
• Follow-on Grants resulting from this award.
• Applications/Patents/Publications resulting from this award.
• Any collaboration with a NASA center, NASA contractor, or Federal Lab.

FINAL FINANCIAL REPORT:

We are required to keep official records of direct expenditures, and of any cost sharing generated, for each project that we support. Consequently, we require an official, signed report that shows the final expenditure of the funds and also shows the certified cost sharing. Please monitor that this is submitted by your accounting office.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

In addition to the two reports discussed above, NASA annual reporting requires that specific information be provided about each of our sub-grants. Click on " Additional Information for Research Projects Requested by NASA" and complete the relevant sections and forward it to the LaSPACE office along with the Final Technical Report.

Please feel free to call the LaSPACE Office at 225-578-8680 or e-mail at eads@phys.lsu.edu if there are any questions or problems.

• LaSPACE Office
  
• Louisiana Space Consortium
  
• Louisiana NASA EPSCoR
  
  
• Louisiana State University
  
• 364 Nicholson Hall
  
• Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4001
  
  
• TEL: 225-578-8680
  
• FAX: 225-578-1222
  
  
• http://LaSPACE.lsu.edu

CITATIONS:

Your attention should be drawn to "Article VII. Publications" in the subcontract. It states all publications, presentations, etc. that emanate from the work supported by this subcontract shall cite the support of the Louisiana Board of Regents through the Board of Regents Support Fund (BoRSF) and the support of NASA under grant NGT5-40115.

Such citation might take the form, '__________________ thanks the Louisiana Board of Regents, BoRSF, under agreement NASA/LEQSF(2001-2005)-LaSPACE and NASA/LaSPACE under grant NGT5-40115 for support during this project.'