Other Support

NIH requirements

The new NIH Current and Pending (Other) Support format will be required for all applications due on or after January 25, 2026! Please make sure you have a SciENcv ID and are familiar with the new Common Form instructions.

Other Support Guidelines

While not currently part of the pre-award application process, the NIH will request during the Just-in-Time procedures for grant applications and/or progress reports that all key personnel proposed on a grant application provide information on current and pending support. This is to ensure there is no scientific, budgetary, or commitment overlap. Called “Other Support,” this document may also be referred to as “current and pending support” or “active and pending support.”

Information collected includes:

  • Project number
  • Contact Principal Investigator
  • Source of support
  • Title of project/subproject*
  • Dates of approved/proposed project
  • Person months
  • $ of Award Period
  • Overlap (scientific, budgetary, and commitment)

Other Support must include all current and pending research support, and all sources of support, even if there is no monetary value (i.e., financial support for lab personnel, provision of materials, in-kind support, etc.). This is especially important for faculty who receive foreign support. Faculty with joint appointments at other institutions must still provide information on all sources of support (specific rules apply for joint VA appointments). For NIH applications, key personnel can exclude the current proposal from being listed.

If you have any questions about completing Other Support documentation, please contact GSU or your department’s fund manager or pre-award manager.

*For multi-component grants, investigators should list the project number, PI, and source of support for the overall award, and for all other sections, should report on the subproject information only.

Coming for applications due on or after January 25, 2026: The NIH recently issued Notice NOT-OD-26-018, in which they confirmed implementation of the Current and Pending (Other) Support Common Forms, including: 

  1. Replacing the NIH Other Support Format with the Other Support Common Form, more familiarly used on NSF applications.
  2. Requiring the use of SciENcv to complete the Common Form (including a required ORCID ID).

SciENcv currently has a test environment available, and NIH anticipates releasing the final forms the week of December 15th.

We strongly encourage faculty and administrative delegates to review Notice NOT-OD-26-018 for a detailed list of major changes.  

Resources:

Non-NIH Resources:

NSF Current and Pending Support: Unlike NIH Other Support, NSF’s Current and Pending Support is included with the grant application process. It must include the current project, location of project, major goals, annual direct costs, and a separate section for “Submissions planned for near future.”

DOD Previous/Current/Pending Support: Major differences between the NIH and DOD include the following: Previous/Current/Pending Support is included with the grant application process, must report on support over the past 5 years, must include names and addresses of the grant officer, and include program goals and specific aims.