Category: Government Technology
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…
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…
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,…
January 26, 2009
Transition team’s technology group
This is a nice insight into how the Obama Administration is thinking about how to use technology to reform government. Well worth a look.…
January 25, 2009
Grants.gov Winter 2009 Newsletter now available
OK, I admit it; I forgot to post about this about a week ago! The newsletter is chock full this time around:
Adobe Transition
Speed and Reliability Upgrade
System Build 2008-03 Update
Understanding Adobe Reader Versions and “Broken Pipe”
Grants.gov Contact Center
Looking…