NASA SMD: Resetting ROSES Due Dates After the Government Shutdown

To the NASA Science Community,

Now that NASA SMD has returned to normal operations, we are working to reset the proposal deadlines for ROSES-25 programs that were impacted by the recent funding lapse. This includes both deadlines that were changed to “TBD” and other near-term deadlines that are no longer viable.

Our goal is to balance fairness to proposers, allowing sufficient time to recover and complete work, with the critical operational need to keep our review panels and missions on schedule.

To that end, we are implementing the following policy for resetting deadlines:

• Default Policy: As a simple and standard baseline, most impacted deadlines will be delayed by a minimum of 30 days.
• Exception Clause: In a few specific cases, a new deadline may be set with a delay of fewer than 30 days. These exceptions are made only when critical operational constraints exist, such as the need to preserve a large-scale review panel that was already organized prior to the shutdown.

For clarity, this policy only applies to deadlines that were TBD or scheduled for the near-term. Existing ROSES-25 deadlines set for dates beyond mid-January 2026 are not expected to be delayed.

We have been amending ROSES-25 and updating the NSPIRES website with the new, specific due dates for impacted programs.

There are a few ways that one may keep up with changes to ROSES: 1) Any amendments to the program elements will be indicated as bold and red in Table 2 and Table 3. 2) due date changes are reflected in the google due date calendars (Instructions are at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/sara/library-and-useful-links), 3) Potential proposers may receive the full official notification of amendments to ROSES-2025 by signing up for the SMD NSPIRES mailing list and 4) proposers may monitor the ROSES-2025 Blog of all clarifications, corrections, and amendments to ROSES at https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/solicitations/roses-2025/

We thank you for your patience and understanding as we work to get these opportunities back on schedule.

Daniel Evans
Acting Deputy Associate Administrator for Research
[email protected]

Astrobiology