During the Government shutdown, the proposal due dates for MDAP and PMDAP were set to TBD in order for Government proposers to have time to prepare their submissions. Now that the Government has resumed work, new due dates have been set for these programs. In addition, new proposal due dates have been set for other programs (OPR) with an original due date in the near future. Updated due dates are as follows:

Mars Data Analysis Program (MDAP): Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Planetary Mission Analysis Program (PMDAP): Monday, October 28, 2013
Outer Planets Research (OPR): Friday, November 15, 2013
NAI Cycle 7 CAN Step 1: Monday, November 18, 2013
NAI Cycle 7 CAN Step 2: Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Mars 2020 Pre-Proposal Conference: Monday, October 28, 2013
Mars 2020 NOI: Monday, November 4, 2013
Mars 2020 Proposal Due Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Questions concerning these changes should be directed to the relevant points of contact:

MDAP and Mars 2020
Mitchell Schulte
202-358-2127
[email protected]

PMDAP
Michael Kelley
202-358-0607
[email protected]

OPR
Terry Hurford
202-358-0780
[email protected]

NAI
Mary Voytek
202-358-1577
[email protected]

[Reduced from NSPIRES announcements and the NASA SARA site]