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The percentage of a budget spent divided by the percentage of elapsed time.
SPA Lifecycle
Principal Investigator Handbook
Pre-Award Shared Services (PASS)
Foreign Government Influence
SPaRC & SPaRC'ed
Acronyms
Glossary