NSF- GenCyber Reports

Carly Sitrin filed this request with the National Science Foundation of the United States of America.
Tracking #

2019-217F

Est. Completion June 25, 2019
Status
Fix Required

Communications

From: Carly Sitrin

To Whom It May Concern:

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I hereby request the following records:

Annual and final project reports documenting the scientific/technical progress of the "Virginia Tech CyberScholars Program" under the direction of Joseph G. Tront, Christie Cooper, and T. Charles Clancy. These reports would have been submitted electronically through the Research.gov web portal.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that fees cannot be waived, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Carly Sitrin

From: MuckRock.com

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Aug. 18, 2015. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.

From: Evans, Sandra

To whom it may concern:

I just did a search of my email and it does not appear that I have received any messages from muckrock.com from June – December 2015. We have received some calls from individuals stating that they sent in a request and no one on the team received it. I will check with our IT staff, but this appears to track when we had a system upgrade. I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused and we will log in your requests.

Sincerely,

Sandra Evans
FOIA/Privacy Act Officer
Office of the General Counsel
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd., Suite 1265
Arlington, VA 22230
Telephone: 703-292-8060

From: National Science Foundation

Dear Carly Sitrin:

Your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request has been received and logged as FOIA 2019-217F. Please reference this number in all communications regarding this request.

Effective September 30, 2013, the National Science Foundation (NSF) instituted a multi-track system (Simple, Normal and Complex) for processing of FOIA requests. Your request has been placed in the Complex Track based on the amount of work and/or time needed to process the request.

The estimated response date to your request is June 25, 2019.

If your request is for copies of funded grant proposals, you may wish to contact the Principal Investigators (PI) directly as we find that most PIs are happy to share their work - though they are not required to do so.

Please be aware that if you are requesting copies of NSF funded grant proposals, under Executive Order 12,600 we are required to notify the submitter (Principal Investigator) of the request for records to allow for their review of any confidential/proprietary business information that may be contained in the funded grant. There is no secrecy afforded to FOIA requesters and your name and affiliation is provided to the submitter/Principal Investigators. We are permitted to allow a reasonable amount of time for the submitters' review. Your request is also forwarded to the submitter (any personal identifiers such as home addresses/home email addresses will be removed).

To speed the processing of your request we will only review and process for release to you the following grant documents: cover page, project summary, project description, and references page(s). If you require the entire proposal, please provide this guidance by return email.

Information pertaining to the FOIA and the NSF's policies concerning records requests is available on the NSF web site https://www.nsf.gov/policies/foia.jsp.

If you have any additional questions about your request, please contact Sandra Evans at 703-292-5065 or by email at sevans@nsf.gov, or Justin Guz at 703-292-2289 or by email at jguz@nsf.gov.

Sincerely,

Priscilla Agyepong
Office of the General Counsel
National Science Foundation
2415 Eisenhower Avenue
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
Phone: (703) 292-8060

From: National Science Foundation

Dear Carly Sitrin:

This e-mail is in response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) on April 29, 2019, regarding "annual and final project reports documenting the scientific/technical progress of the "Virginia Tech CyberScholars Program" under the direction of Joseph G. Tront, Christie Cooper and T. Charles Clancy.

We are currently processing a voluminous number of FOIA requests in backlog status and we are sorry for the delay. At this point, we are ready to continue to process your request. Due to the length of time, we are wondering if you are still interested in your request?

If there is no response to this e-mail within 30 business days, NSF will assume that you are no longer interested and close the file on your request. Should you have any questions regarding this response, please contact me at foia@nsf.gov<mailto:foia@nsf.gov>. Thank you for your interest in the National Science Foundation.

Sincerely,
Priscilla Agyepong

Priscilla Agyepong
Office of the General Counsel
National Science Foundation
2415 Eisenhower Avenue
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
Phone: (703) 292-8060

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