The tools used to conduct research and to represent findings are changing. High density images, sound, video, animations, and 3-D renderings, for example, are becoming more commonplace as tools to represent research findings. The ability of the enterprise to effectively bring this information to bear on funding decisions rests heavily on the development of technologies to support the incorporation of multimedia resources into the proposal development, submission, and management process. In many cases, however, the advanced techniques used to create, manage, and present findings cannot be demonstrated or shared within research reports to funding agencies or in follow-on proposals. The tools available to researchers to incorporate multimedia into traditional proposal structures and the capacity of granting agencies to accept proposals with multimedia components are both limited.