DARPA Web Based Reporting Tool

For several months, MIT has been a member of an ad hoc group formed by DARPA to develop a tool where reports for DARPA/ITO awards will be submitted electronically. The intent is that all reports, both technical and financial, will be submitted/posted using this tool, including financial reports that are currently being prepared and submitted by DLC's. In order to maintain reporting uniformity, DARPA/ITO will insist their DOD agents (AFRL, SPAWAR, HUACHUCA/INTERIOR, etc). incorporate this reporting requirement into awards made by those agents. .
Tracking current spending information continues to be problem for most federal agencies. DARPA's hope is that the development of this tool will help alleviate some of that problem. Included in the reporting requirement is information on invoicing and payment. Many institutions believe that the financial information should be accessible to DARPA via other means than having it included in the quarterly technical/administrative reports. However, at the present time inclusion of this information is what DARPA proposes. Moreover, DARPA argues that this is information institutions now provide to the government and is more helpful to also include it in this report to allow DARPA a mechanism to track expenditure and billing data in a more current fashion. More information on this reporting tool will be made available to the community as we get closer to implementation.

Last updated 7/15/02