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Thanks for the replies. I'll try to ask my adviser to get on it one more time and if that doesn't work then I suppose I'll have to go to someone above him.

I don't know where else to ask this question and I'm quite desperate. I'd like to know just how important the post-funding final reports are for NSF. If they contain the minimal information and are quite poorly written does it really matter? How much effort is generally put into them? I've looked at the template and it appears that you can choose to skip a lot of questions, so I'm wondering if it's really just a formality. The reason I ask is because my first DDIG proposal wasn't even reviewed because a final report my adviser was supposed to submit on his past NSF funded research was never submitted, and now after having submitted my 2nd DDIG proposal I got the same message warning that it won't be reviewed unless the report in question is submitted. I've spoken with my adviser about this and emailed him about it, but to no avail. Are these reports a real burden to write? I'm thinking of writing it for him, bullshitting the answers and skipping most of the questions, then sending it to him so he can take 5 minutes to upload it himself. I don't know what else to do, and if this 2nd DDIG proposal of mine doesn't ever get reviewed because of some stupid report that's not my responsibility I don't know how I would handle that.