September 2026 GMAS Release
The September 2026 release will be available on Friday, September 18th, 2026.
In support of this release, the system will be unavailable starting at 6:00 PM ET on Thursday, September 17th.
GMAS will be available again no later than the start of business on Friday, September 18th.
The primary focus of this release is to reintroduce the Grants.gov opportunity look-up functionality and a new field for identifying and tracking the NIH activity code in proposal entry.
Opportunity Number Lookup and NIH Activity Code Recording
Related resources: TBD
Reason: Reimplementing the Grants.gov opportunity lookup and adding the ability to track the NIH activity code allows GMAS to capture additional opportunity details, supporting more accurate tracking and reporting.
- Reinstated the grants.gov opportunity lookup API
- Updated the Opportunity field on proposal entry and edit screen to call API to find opportunity data from grants.gov to import opportunity data and extract NIH activity code
- Added a new NIH activity code field for proposals where NIH is the sponsor
- Field will be automatically derived from opportunity data if successful match made when calling the API
- Field will allow for manual selection if sponsor is NIH and opportunity data does not have a successful match made when calling the API
- Did a call back with grants.gov API to match on previously entered opportunity numbers
- If matches were successful, additional opportunity data, including NIH activity code, was will be pulled into GMAS
Additional HERD Survey Support
Reason: Finalize updates in GMAS to be fully aligned with University-wide HERD Survey reporting.
- Removed the R&D requirement where the proposed A21 code is listed as A03
- Removed any data previously entered for R&D type for proposals with an A03 A21 code listed
- Added ‘Other Life Sciences’ back into the Discipline code dropdown menu
- Additional project updates to map projects back into the ‘Other Life Sciences’ category
Additional Central Segment Revision Request Support
Reason: Continued progress and bug fixes for the new segment revision request tracking module (available to central submitting office staff only).
- Added ability to send a notification to someone when entering notes in the provide update modal
- Updated the provide update language on the segment revision request screen to always display who the request is currently assigned to
- Added ability to update the requestor and processor from the segment revision processing dashboard
- Moved the year logic flag out of the account details and into the new award information panel and added to a new higher level panel on at-risk accounts
- Will display as a yes, no question on the edit and view version of the screen
- Moved the A21 code out of the account details and into the new award information panel and added to a new higher level panel on at-risk accounts
- Removed the account attributes field within new account details and added a yes, no questions for On campus and Restricted funds
- Restructured the account detail entry fields
- Added notification recipients into the history modal
- Fixed a bug preventing merge person activity when person is mentioned in the segment revision request
- Fixed a bug where sponsors with more than 20 characters in their organization name were not displaying in the revision request view screen
Other enhancements and bug fixes
- Added comment functionality to sponsor notices
- Changed ‘Central reviewer comments’ to instead read as ‘Central comments’ in all places the central comments appear
- Update to current organization risk assessment status so that latest FY entry status is displayed when there is more than 1 record for the same fiscal year
- Transaction monitoring rules for tracking the spending against subagreement object codes were updated
- Awards with an award date prior to 7/1/2025, and awards where NIH is in any sponsor role on the award regardless of award date will follow the 25k rule which indicates that the first $25,000 in expenditures must be applied to object code 8190 before any expenses are applied to other subagreement object codes
- Transaction monitoring reason code updated to read as “8190 capped at $25,000”
- Awards where NIH is not in any sponsor role with an award date of 7/1/2025 or later will follow the 50k rule which indicates that the first $50,000 in expenditures must be applied to object code 8190 before any expenses are applied to other subagreement object codes
- Transaction monitoring reason code updated to read as “8190 capped at $50,000”
- Awards with an award date prior to 7/1/2025, and awards where NIH is in any sponsor role on the award regardless of award date will follow the 25k rule which indicates that the first $25,000 in expenditures must be applied to object code 8190 before any expenses are applied to other subagreement object codes
- Proposal A21 code option menu display order updated to A02, A03, A15, and A01
- New funding instrument created in support of strategic research support
- Added notification recipients into the subagreement and subamendment history modal
- Addressed formatting issues caused by major technical upgrade (PrimeFaces 14)
- Name and role misalignment on add and edit research team modal
- Non-financial deliverable “All” label alignment fix in additional recipients field
- Person profile column adjustment in person name details
- Financial deliverables approve modal action buttons overlap fixed
- Financial deliverables final figure edit column overlapping with comments fixed
- Addressed issues introduced by major technical updgrade (PrimeFaces 14) with financial deliverable dashboard comments that occurs after filtering on dates
- Updated the receipts details screen so that when navigating back from breadcrumbs previously entered search criteria is still displayed.
- Added new funding instrument type in segment revision.
Other technical enhancements
- Added ability to navigate to the admin module and ‘Switch back to me’ from person menu for GMAS staff
- Created new admin module pages to support NIH activity code and grants.gov opportunity API
- Built new date picker field where manual entry and calendar are separate in the tool-kit for future application implementation
- Fixed PDS screen layout in the admin module available to GMAS staff
- Clean Sappient framework references so GMAS log is clean when starting up the app
- Addressed high security vulnerability from Github (for both GMAS and ecrt)
- Remove hidden date field in master.xthml that was suppressing a console error
- Fix optimistic locking exception in Page Views
- Fixed session timeout warning and extended the active user session without requiring page reload
- Renewal of CSMA jobs GPG keys for GMAS
- Mail call connection moved from EWS to Microsoft Graph API
- Created conditional email and batch header data for Mail call when successfully processing emails or a fail occurs (will continue to not email or record batch header data when processing 0 records)
- Created new ID in RF_GMAS_INTERFACES for Mail call
- Updates to database in support of enhancements and fixes.
GMAS release 1_66.03