April 2, 2009

Grantium announces “Find & Apply Portal” alternative to Grants.gov

Grantium has now issued its own press release (following from that issued by CGI Federal a while ago) about their alternative solution to Grants.gov, called the Find & Apply Portal. Grantium’s Grants Find & Apply Portal is an alternative solution to Grants.gov, delivering…
April 1, 2009

Earl Warrington/Recovery.gov speaking at NGMA meeting today

Earl Warrington, Program Manager for Recovery.gov, is speaking at today’s National Grants Management Association training luncheon. Should be an interesting talk. If you didn’t get a chance to register, never fear! A webcast of the event will be available on a tape-delay basis.*…

Grants.gov hits new highs, and tracks Recovery Act opportunities

Two great pieces of news hit the Grants.gov blog yesterday: Grants.gov has experienced an unprecedented volume on the website. The hits on the site have increased 115% from December 08 (800K) to March 09 (1.8M). In the three week period…
March 31, 2009

NGP meeting & webcast today 1.30pm

Just a reminder that the National Grants Partnership hosts a regular meeting today at 1.30pm. If you haven’t registered to attend in person, don’t worry! You can view the webcast at no cost. For more information on this, check the agenda. Here’s…

We will return to Grants.gov, say several agencies

The Federal Times published an article yesterday with some interesting quotes and comments from several federal agencies who are now accepting grant applications through home-grown systems rather than using Grants.gov. Of those interviewed by The Federal Times, the consensus appears…
March 24, 2009

Grants.gov gets new leadership

Grants.gov has a new program manager to guide it through the challenges of servicing the Recovery Act. Phillip Clark, a member of the HHS Office of the Chief Information Officer, will be Acting Program Manager as Eben Trevino moves to become Senior…

Standardize the clouds!

…Or at least that’s what we should do if cloud computing is to gain broad adoption, according to experts who spoke at the Strategies and Technologies for Cloud Computing Interoperability meeting this week (Washington Technology report). My observations of this…

FDP posts draft agenda for May meeting

The FDP has now posted the draft agenda for their May meeting, which includes a panel on how to manage and administer ARRA funds, as well as the usual federal agency updates. I won’t be at this meeting, even though Newport Beach,…
March 23, 2009

“Show me the subawards data!” sayeth Coburn

As reported in Federal Computer Week today, Sen. Tom Coburn has asked OMB why subaward data is not yet available on USASpending.gov. A pilot program was in progress in the middle of last year but little about realizing the end goal…
March 20, 2009

Reauthorization of PL106-107 moves ahead

Cornelia Chebinou of the NGP just pinged the membership with this good news: Please be advised that on Tuesday, March 17, 2009, the Senate passed S. 303, the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 2009, which would reauthorize P.L. 106–107.…