It was August, and I don't believe they accepted proposals in Feb this year. The office of special projects person at my university said they would only be accepting them in August now. My experience was that the date changed on "status date" in November, and then again in December. One date referred to internal review and one to external, I believe. For about a week in December, the "Program Officer" was someone else, and then went back to the original person (Dr. Kronz). Good luck!