October 24, 2007

Grants.gov now supports Adobe Reader 8.1.1

Grants.gov made this announcement yesterday. Great progress!  Grants.gov now supports the latest version of Adobe Reader (8.1.1), which is available for free download from the Adobe Website http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. Grants.gov continues to support Adobe Reader version 7.0.9. Only these two versions…
October 22, 2007

NGP meeting and webcast today

I can’t make the NGP meeting today from 13.30–15.30 EDT so I’ll be catching up via Webcast, but everyone who can attend should! (If you haven’t already registered, you can still join via webcast.) The participation details are below, and the…
October 17, 2007

OMB GMLOB guidance released for Q1 FY08

Thanks to Jerry Ashworth at Thompson Publishing, editor of the Federal Grants Management Handbook (disclosure: I’m a member of the Handbook Advisory Board), for pointing me toward the GrantSolutions.gov site where OMB’s latest guidance has been posted. This is the guidance…
October 10, 2007

Grants.gov Webcast on October 17th

Just a quick reminder that there’s a Grants.gov Webcast next Wednesday from 1pm to 3pm. Here’s how to participate:  1. Go to http://www.hud.gov 2. Go to the bottom right hand corner of the page under the title “Now Playing.” At 12:30 Eastern…
September 26, 2007

GSA changes tack on FederalSpending.gov solicitation. Again

FCW reports that GSA issued another modification to its solicitation for the data and system to power FederalSpending.gov by January 1st; now they just want data and no software. This is all rather inscrutable to me. From the article:  “GSA…
September 25, 2007

FFATA.org launched

You wait ages for an easy way to search federal awards data and then two come along at once! Well, almost. The folks who currently support the Federal Procurement Data System — Next Generation (known as FPDS-NG) have launched a competitor…

New technology transfer resource

Sharon McLoone’s Small Business blog pointed out a great resource for entrepreneurs looking for new innovations to take to market: the iBridge Network. This is  “an online searchable database with the latest news in research, technologies and findings at U.S. universities. The…

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…
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…
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…