OMSP Structure

The Vice President for Research maintains an organization to administer the OMSP. In this capacity, the VP for Research is responsible for coordinating the assignment of TD Principal Investigators, progress monitoring, program administration, liaison with the sponsors, the reporting and delivery of results and OMSP business operations.

The OMSP Director is assigned by the Vice President for Research. The director shall have experience as a program manager and be intimately familiar with DoD's mission, organization and functions. The management functions of the Director include:

• effective programmatic communication between sponsors and Penn State.
• responsibility for all administrative requirements directed sponsors as part of the government contract
• oversight of the OMSP web site
• oversight of the programmatic progress and expenditure of resources for all OMSP administered delivery orders
• administrative support to PIs in the performance of OMSP delivery orders
• provide administrative support for the drafting of task descriptions

OMSP Project Managers (PMs) are assigned by the OMSP Director to manage delivery orders. PMs oversee the programmatic progress of delivery orders, ensure PIs proivde deliverables and that milestones are met.

A Principal Investigator (PI) is a Penn State subject matter expert who will function as the overall technical and programmatic manager of a OMSP task description/delivery order. The PI will be responsible for the performance of the task and will coordinate programmatic and technical progress of the task order with the OMSP Director. PIs will be the primary performance interface with the sponsor's organization that initiated the task description.

The Business Manager monitors the business operations of the OMSP. The business manager:

• ensures delivery order expenditures are permissable per University and government standards
• reviews/authorizes all travel requests of OMSP staff
• reviews/authorizes all expenditures of funds used for the administration of the OMSP
• coordinates all facility enhancements
• tracks delivery order milestones and provides feedback to the PM, project managers and PIs