Category: Government Technology
September 25, 2007
GAO says LOB funding contravenes appropriations law
Chris Dorobek’s blog is proving really useful! He’s highlighted a GAO report about DHS’s use of shared services, and notes that GAO has come to quite alarming conclusions:
“the legal principles are clear. [DHS] officials stated that the directorate pooled funds…
We’re aiming to save taxpayers $1 billion by 2011
We just announced our new company goal: To save taxpayers $1 billion by 2011! You can read all about it on our Web site. To create this goal and track our progress we’ve spent the better part of this year…
September 20, 2007
FDP starts government grantor systems wiki
FDP’s inimitable Ron Splittgerber of Colorado State has taken it upon himself to start a wiki that will document agency grant systems, interfaces, forms, and a host of other great information. The prototype is up here and will be based on data…
Brain Storming Web 2.0 at NIH
Via the ever-wonderful BCIG mailing list I got notice of this very interesting Web 2.0 initiative at NIH, which is exploring the application of those technologies at that revered (around here, anyway) agency. There’s an open discussion session being held on…
September 11, 2007
FDP: Grants.gov Update
Terry Nicolosi provided an update on the Grants.gov system. She was joined by Harsha Rao, Gary Alfano (both from General Dynamics), Doug Privelege (from Adobe), and Vince Sprouls. Lots of interesting information here, including the fact that IBM Workplace Forms…
September 10, 2007
FDP: FFATA SF-424 Forms Update
Jean Feldman talked about how the SF-424 needs to change to help FFATA compliance. Jean leads the SF424 Forms Families & FFATA Implementation Subcommittee. More after the link……
FDP: FFATA Update
I joined the session on FFATA a little late (Brad Stanford’s fault, honest!) but arrived just in time to see Gil Tran of OMB slay the crowd and take the title of Humorous Government Person at the FDP Meeting from Jean Feldman.…
The unsaid reason why agencies resist GMLOB
Last week and today I’ve been having interested chats with various people about GMLOB and attempts to consolidate grants management operations. One key point has emerged from these discussions and I thought it might be useful to describe it here.
The problem…
FDP: GMOB Profiles
All three of the GMLOB consortia (NSF, Education, and HHS/ACF) gave an overview of their offerings today. Notes follow the jump……
Government heads for Second Life
Just picked up this post from Bob Brewin from GovExec.
That’s the goal of key staffers at the Information Resources Management College at the National Defense University, which has a formed a multiagency consortium to establish a sizeable federal presence in the Second…