# National Science Foundation — the long-form archive

Everything National Science Foundation has published while this archive has been running: 6 documents across 4 days, oldest first.

Coverage begins on 2026-08-18, which is when this archive started holding Federal Register
issues — not when the agency started publishing. Anything earlier is absent from this page and
its absence is not evidence.

[HTML](https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/national-science-foundation/archive.html) · [the last five days](https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/national-science-foundation/index.md)

## 18 August 2026 — 1 document

> The National Science Foundation published a notice of meeting for the Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee.

- **Notice** [Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/18/2026-16794/astronomy-and-astrophysics-advisory-committee-notice-of-meeting) · `2026-16794`

## 20 August 2026 — 1 document

> The National Science Foundation published a notice soliciting public comments on renewing an existing information collection for improving customer experience, with comments due October 19, 2026.

- **Notice** [Information Collection; Improving Customer Experience (OMB Circular A-11, Section 280 Implementation)](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/20/2026-16984/information-collection-improving-customer-experience-omb-circular-a-11-section-280-implementation) · `2026-16984`

## 26 August 2026 — 3 documents

> The National Science Foundation published three notices requesting public comment on information collection activities under the Paperwork Reduction Act.

- **Notice** [Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comment Regarding Common Disclosure Forms for the Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/26/2026-17415/agency-information-collection-activities-request-for-comment-regarding-common-disclosure-forms-for) · `2026-17415`
- **Notice** [Agency Information Collection Activities: National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) Reviewer Request Form](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/26/2026-17414/agency-information-collection-activities-national-science-foundation-nsf-directorate-for-technology) · `2026-17414`
- **Notice** [Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request; Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/26/2026-17413/agency-information-collection-activities-comment-request-qualitative-feedback-on-agency-service) · `2026-17413`

## 28 August 2026 — 1 document

> The National Science Foundation announced its intent to reinstate the National Training, Education, and Workforce Survey information collection.

- **Notice** [Notice of Intent To Reinstate Information Collection](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/28/2026-17556/notice-of-intent-to-reinstate-information-collection) · `2026-17556`

## Ask an assistant instead

Everything on this page is also a tool call. Add `mcp.downstream.sh` as an MCP server — no key, no
account — then paste this:

```
Using the Downstream MCP server at mcp.downstream.sh, call whats_new_since with agency "National Science Foundation" since 2026-08-18, then tell me what this agency has been working on and which of its deadlines are still open.
```

Reaches `whats_new_since`. The response carries its own citations and states what it is missing,
including which dates it has no record for.

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The Federal Register's HTML and XML renderings are unofficial; the PDF on each item is the
official text, and that is the one to cite.

Counts are arithmetic over published fields, dates are printed as filed, and titles are verbatim.
Where we have nothing, this says nothing rather than estimating. The one-sentence agency summaries
are machine-written from those same fields and are labelled where they appear.

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