Category: Government Technology

May 18, 2011

Grants.gov will be competed among 8(a) firms

Much of the discussion lately in the grants management systems community has been about the upcoming recompete of the Grants.gov IT support contract, currently held by General Dynamics IT. A sources sought was issued in April and now word reaches me…
May 17, 2011

AABPA Conducting Survey of Federal Budget Professionals

The American Association for Budget and Program Analysis (AABPA) has joined forces with Grant Thornton LLP to conduct a survey of Federal budget professionals. This survey covers budget formulation, budget and performance integration, budget execution, resource constraints, congressional issues, systems and…
April 20, 2011

LAMHDI Exhibits at Experimental Biology Conference

LAMHDI, the initiative to Link Animal Models to Human DIsease, exhibited at the recent Experimental Biology conference at the Washington Convention Center in DC. The conference attracted well over 10,000 researchers, students, exhibitors, and practitioners, many of whom visited the…
February 18, 2011

FDP January presentations now online

The Federal Demonstration Partnership held its last meeting in late January, and all the presentations are now available on their web site. There’s some very informative data here: Updates from NIH, NSF, NASA, ONR, AFOSR, and USDA The Future of the Grants…
February 14, 2011

AABPA announces Spring Symposium for May 11th, 2011

The AABPA symposia are always informative and helpful, with some excellent speakers. Details of the spring gathering were just sent out. Here’re the details: Refine, Retool, Collaborate: The Future is Now Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Capital Hilton Hotel, 16th and K Streets, NW,…
January 26, 2011

Rumors of a new cloud-based grants filing initiative

Mark Forman, the former OMB leader responsible for initiation of the Grants Management Line of Business (GMLoB), has announced that he will be “joining a colleague of mine in government reform, jumping into the cloud, with a cloud-computing initiative around grants filing.”…
January 20, 2011

Grants.gov webcast — now 2/2/11 at 1pm

Head on over to http://videocast.nih.gov at 1pm on February 2nd to join the Grants.gov Stakeholder Webcast. Looks like an interesting agenda: Introduction – Webcast Participants  Grant.gov Status Update  Grants.gov/Grantsolution Partnership Grantsolution Services Grants.gov/COE Discussion Grants.gov Support Q&A – Questions from…
January 4, 2011

Executive Leaders Radio Issues Case Study about TCG’s Dan Turner

Executive Leaders Radio, which airs on Washington, DC’s WHFS 1580 AM, has issued a case study about TCG President Dan Turner. The case study, which highlights how Mr. Turner built TCG into the success story that it is today by “delegating…
November 18, 2010

TCG Spreads the Word at the Society for Neuroscience Conference

TCG is helping its clients get the word out about the projects we manage for them. TCG staff worked alongside scientists to present two of our scientific-collaboration projects to the 30,000 people attending the Society for Neuroscience conference in San…
November 16, 2010

Next Grants.gov Webcast — 11/17/10, 1pm

Grants.gov will be talking about its future tomorrow, at 1pm. At that time, go to http://videocast.nih.gov to join the session. The complete agenda looks like this: Introduction – PMO  FY2010 Highlights Security Build Implementation/Resources Operational Status – System Outages/Impact System-to-System Next Release…