Author: Pete Sinnott
March 20, 2009
CGI and Grantium team for hosted ARRA grants management solution
This release just crossed the wires and I thought it would be of interest to a few readers. Seems like CGI Federal and Grantium have teamed up to provide a hosted grants management solution focused on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grants.…
March 18, 2009
2009 Excellence.Gov Awards finalists announced
ACT-IAC has just announced the finalists for this year’s Excellence.Gov Awards, the theme of which is “Transparency: Using IT to improve the interaction between Government and its Stakeholders.” A list of the finalists is below, in alphabetical order. The top 5 finalists…
March 17, 2009
Grants.gov to be updated in 90–120 days
Jason Miller at Federal News Radio posted an update to our story last week about OMB’s concerns over Grants.gov’s ability to handle the expected surge in grant applications:
“The Department of Health and Human Services expects to upgrade the Grants.gov…
March 11, 2009
Grants.gov has “significant risk of failure” says OMB
OMB’s Director has issued a memo instructing federal agencies to “submit recommended alternatives [to Grants.gov for receiving grant applications] … for review and approval by March 13, 2009” because a system review has revealed that Grants.gov has “significant risk of failure” and…
March 9, 2009
Federal cloud computing workshop on March 23
Shahid Shah alerted me to the Strategies and Technologies for Cloud Computing Interoperability (SATCCI) event on March 23rd in Crystal City, Virginia (just outside Washington, DC). As Shahid notes on the Federal Architect blog:
The Obama Administration in general and…
March 3, 2009
UK government strongly advocates open source
This is truly fantastic. The UK government has decided that, where there is little price difference between open source and commercial products, open source should be selected due to its inherent flexibility. The initiative is also promoting re-use of product…
March 2, 2009
Learn about Recovery.gov at NGMA lunch, April 1st
I just got word that the NGMA is hosting a training session called “The Stimulus Bill & Grants Management: Tracking and Reporting Requirements” on April 1st. Earl Warrington, Program Manager for Recovery.gov and Director of the Integrated Acquisition Environment at GSA, will…
February 20, 2009
NGP meeting rescheduled for 3/31/09
The last NGP meeting was canceled due to a broken water main at the Department of Education, and it has now been rescheduled for March 31st, 1.30pm‑3.30pm. The agenda is the same as before (here). And, remember, even if you can’t…
February 17, 2009
More TCG friends win a Fed 100!
One of TCG’s friends won a Fed 100 in 2008, and now another has done the same thing…and they are both working on the same project! Andy Schoenbach of OMB was honored last year and now Shahid Shah of Netspective Communications,…
February 4, 2009
Cooley optimistic about grants streamlining
Tom Cooley, the chair of the Chief Financial Officer’s Council’s Grants Policy Committee was interviewed by Jason Miller on FederalNewsRadio yesterday. There’s a distinct note of optimism in Tom’s responses, and for good reason: the GPC now has an Implementation Plan…