Category: Government Technology
November 27, 2006
Excellence.Gov Awards — nominations close 12/4/06
Just a quick reminder to nominate your projects for a 2007 Excellence.Gov Award! Nominations close on December 4 (that’s this Friday) so time is getting short. These awards highlight the very best government IT projects, culminating in an annual award ceremony and…
November 10, 2006
E‑gov initiatives to create momentum under new House leadership?
Following up from my post yesterday about the impact of changes in House and Senate committee leaderships, I see that GovExec has some additional comments from various government IT types, including this:
… interagency transfers of funds to work on the…
November 9, 2006
DOT and SBA jump to green!
OMB released the latest scorecard today and there’s some dramatic change — DOT and SBA have both jumped from a red status under E‑Government to green! You can see all the past scores on the Results.gov website. A “green” status indicates…
Federal IT’s fortunes unclear under new Senate and House leadership
Washington Technology offers great insight on how Tuesday’s election results may impact federal IT spending. The summary is:
In the Senate, Joe Lieberman will likely continue his support of e‑government initiatives, in his new role as chairman of the Homeland…
November 8, 2006
OMB says “Turn off duplicative systems…or else”
Jason Miller posted an enlightening article, reporting on Karen Evans’ intention to have agencies turn off duplicative systems. In past years, funding for IT that duplicated functionality in government-wide systems (e.g. Grants.gov’s find and apply) was cut. Now, though, OMB…
OMB: Initiatives will outlast Bush
GovExec published an interesting article last week about the permanence of initiatives such as the Lines of Business (grants management being one of them). Many agencies are asking themselves whether to pay a lot of attention to these initiatives, in light…
October 26, 2006
Grants.gov Stakeholder’s Meeting 10/25/06. And I don’t mean to be annoying. Honest!
The Grants.gov PMO held their bi-monthly Stakeholder’s Meeting yesterday and while I couldn’t attend (we’re responding to a large proposal and I’m — how can I put it? — going nuts) I got the notes from a colleague. The presentations should be on the Grants.gov…
Google seeks access to Grants.gov data (and others) — what about RSS?
They’re already indexing every book on the planet, so why not government data? GovExec reports that Google is trying to open government data to Internet search engines (though I can’t imagine which one they have in mind!) to better enable users…
October 23, 2006
GCN article about FM and GM integration
Jason Miller just filed new story for GCN discussing how the Financial Management Line of Business (FMLOB) and Grants Management Line of Business (GMLOB) are working together to figure out how they intersect. Yours truly is quoted in there (I’m…
October 13, 2006
The value of government (and government IT)
Over on the GCN blogs, Tom Temin posted an article titled “Is YouTube more valuable than say Grants gov?” in which he reports on SAP America’s funding of a study to quantify the value of government. I don’t know why he mentioned…