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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">A new data field has been added in MyRA for outgoing subaward requests (SWD) to align with
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In the “SWD Sponsor, Project and Scope of Work” SmartForm (Figure 1), answering “Yes” to the question “Is this FFATA Reportable?” will now result in a required follow-up field named “Subaward Description” (Figure 2).</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">Information entered into the Subaward Description field will be reported and
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Help text is available within the form to provide additional guidance for this field (Figure 3).</span></div>
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Figure 1. SWD Sponsor, Project and Scope of Work SmartForm.</div>
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Figure 2. New answer field when answered “Yes”.</div>
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Figure 3. Help Text.</div>
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