Category: Government Technology
October 13, 2006
Nominate your project for the 2007 Excellence.Gov Awards!
I’m the Chair of the ACT/IAC Excellence.Gov Awards this year. The awards are a very big deal in government and industry circles, and this year we’re focusing on “Leveraging Technology to Enhance Collaboration”. The idea is to highlight the very best…
October 6, 2006
OMB Watch launching FedSpending.org
OMB Watch just sent out invitations to the launch of FedSpending.org, the database of Federal funding and awards that is something of a model for the Federal Financial Transparency and Accountability Act (FFATA), formerly known as bill S.2590. I can’t attend but…
October 5, 2006
Complete this survey!
Are you a grantee? Use a grants system? You should complete this survey. (Full disclosure: I’m the Co-Chair of this committee!)
If you haven’t already responded to the National Grants Partnership survey regarding the use of standards in grants management and administration,…
We’re building the Neuroimaging Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC)
Our company was recently awarded a new contract from NIH to build and operate the Neuroimaging Tools and Resources Clearinghouse, which we’re calling NITRC (pronounced “ni-trick”). We are incredibly excited by this project and have already begun work. From our press…
Grants.gov outages and SI transition
Grants.gov just released a notice about their plan for transitioning to the new system integrator, Anteon/General Dynamics. Headline: The system will be down this Sunday, October 8th, from 10am ET to 6pm ET! All other planned outages are contained in this…
Unannounced Grants.gov file format change causes problems
Users of Grants.Gov’s XML downloads of funding opportunity announcements got an unpleasant surprise recently: the XML files changed, without any announcement or forewarning. The problem is apparently in the XML date elements:
PostDate
ApplicationsDueDate
ArchiveDate
Up to now, the ISO…
October 4, 2006
Oracle’s Grants.gov integration in PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9
Oracle issued a press release yesterday about their PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9 product. Part of this is proud to state:
PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9 includes out-of-the-box integration with http://www.grants.gov for organizations to obtain and view their opportunities list, preview grant applications…
October 3, 2006
OMB asks bloggers to help push management agenda
GovExec reports on a meeting between Clay Johnson, OMB Deputy Director for Management, and a group of bloggers who helped push S.2590 through Congress. From the article:
Bloggers from across the political spectrum were credited with helping push the legislation quickly through…
Commentary on S.2590 in Information Today
Information Today has a good article on the history and future of S.2590, the database of the federal grants and contracts. The author notes that,
The database will only be as good as the data included in it. The current data collection…
September 28, 2006
Franchise funds and the GMLOB
We’ve been doing some research into the business models that are driving the various Lines of Business initiatives, and recently compiled some information about Federal franchise funds that we thought might be good to share.
“Franchise funds” is a 1994 program that…