Category: Government Technology
January 23, 2006
DHS emphasizes cybersecurity in grant kit
From Government Computer News:
The IT-related guidance is included in the fiscal 2006 grant application kit for the distribution of $3.9 billion in federal homeland security grants to states and localities this year, published by the preparedness directorate.
So it…
January 19, 2006
Grants.gov meets 25% ‘find’ target
Grants.gov met its target to publish 25% of all Federal grant opportunities through the Grants.gov portal in FY2005, reports GCN. That’s quite an achievement. The target for next year is 75%. Yikes!
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January 13, 2006
NIH BCIG Book Club
The NIH Biomedical Computing Interest Group (BCIG) has organized a book club which is holding its first event on January 26 at 5.30pm at the NIH Clinical Center (Building 10), Medical Board Room (Room 2C116). The first event will be a discussion…
MySQL now on GSA Schedule
[Via Slashdot] Government buyers can now get MySQL on a GSA Schedule. Is this the first time this has happened, though? A quick look at the GSA Advantage site yields at least one or two results for MySQL database license vendors. Besides…
January 10, 2006
OMB’s selling of e‑government to Congress
Jason Miller at GCN does a great job in reporting on OMB’s report to Congress which attempts to salvage funding for e‑gov projects. The crux of OMB’s problem is that Congress assigns money to each agency for specified purposes but has…
December 1, 2005
Kim Nelson, EPA CIO, going to Microsoft
Nelson to step down as EPA CIO.
Kim’s been a vocal supporter of e‑government and a strong manager. This
is a great move for her…and a great catch for Microsoft.…
Information sharing awards — Excellence.Gov 2006
Every year the eGov Shared Interest Group of the Industry Advisory Council (IAC), which is part of the American Council for Technology (ACT), organizes the Excellence.Gov Awards. Nominate your program now! The deadline has just been pushed back to December…
NASA ditches IE in favor of Firefox
A little birdie told me today that NASA has given up entirely on Internet Explorer. Now, if you are an employee of NASA, every time you go to a page using IE, you get up to three prompts telling you how…
November 29, 2005
Johns Hopkins accelerates Grants.gov plans
MIT participated in Grants.gov’s applicant system-to-system interface pilot, developing out their Coeus system, which is used by a great many grantees for their grants management needs. Steve Dowdy, MIT’s lead developer for this effort, is a very well-spoken advocate and critic of…
November 28, 2005
How to manage federal+contractor workforces
GovExec reports that the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) has developed a draft report titled “Managing Federal Missions with a Multisector Workforce”, which discusses how federal agency managers can handle a staff consisting of both government and industry personnel. As federal managers…