The NASA Shared Services Center - provides a variety of services to NASA; plays a key role in the disbursement of funds for research and analysis grants. This office is physically located at NASA's Stennis Space Center. In May 2006, the NASA Shared Services Center began issuing all new grants and cooperative agreements for the Science Mission Directorate. After a phase-in period, NSSC now issues all grants and cooperative agreements for the Agency including SMD and all 10 NASA Centers. Following receipt of a complete award package, including funding, a NSSC grant officer issues the award to the recipient organization. NSSC is also responsible for issuing annual funding continuations for multi-year awards (following receipt and approval of the annual progress report) and for closing out the award (following receipt and approval of the final report). The NSSC grants home page provides reference information on NASA grants. The status of all NSSC awarded NASA grants may be found using the grants status search.