NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
4201 WILSON BOULEVARD
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA 22230
OFFICE OF
INSPECTOR GENERAL
MEMORANDUM
Date: March 25, 1997
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To: I960400 18
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From: 1-1 Special Agent
Via: "4, Special Agent-in-Char
Re : Resolution of Case
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In March 1996, our office received an allegation from an NSF Program Manager that a Small
Business Innovation Research (SBIR) applicant, A - was listing
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A
in their 1995 NSF SBIR proposal 4 a Principal Investigator (PI), who
was not primarily employed by
Subsequent investigation determined that -was not listed as the PI in NSF proposal
9561854. In addition, neither n o r e v e r received funding from NSF and have
not applied for NSF funding since NSF proposal 4 was submitted. However, since
m i d receive at least two SBIR Phase I grants from the U.S. Army and U.S, Navy which
as the PI, we referred this matter to Defense Criminal Investigative Service
list
(DCIS) pecial Agent
~inc-and- have not continued to apply for NSF funding and S / A has
kept us informed of DCIS' investigation of the allegation, further use of NSF resources to
investigate the allegation is not warranted at this time. This case is closed.
SBIR
Published by the National Science Foundation, Office of Inspector General on 1997-03-27.
Below is a raw (and likely hideous) rendition of the original report. (PDF)