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May 23, 2011
NIH Awards First-Time Grant to Long-Time Grants Management Experts
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded TCG a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to develop a cloud-based data sharing system for neuroscience. While TCG has helped agencies manage tens of thousands of grants for others for 17 years,this is…
May 19, 2011
GAO report on Grants.gov is critical (again)
GAO is charged with monitoring the performance and progress achieved by Grants.gov over its lifetime and its latest report was released earlier this month. The highlights include:
Agencies are being charged by Grants.gov based on their size and not their…
Pass-the-hat funding gets a slap from OMB Watch
NextGov highlights an OMB Watch report that discusses the challenges facing e‑gov initiatives that are funded using a “pass-the-hat” approach. Grants.gov is one of these initiatives, and faces multiple challenges in this area, as a recent GAO report about Grants.gov examined.…
May 18, 2011
LAMHDI Exhibits at Immunology 2011
TCG’s LAMHDI Team–Judith Turner, Matt Travers, and Haig Evans-Kavaldjian–manned an exhibit at Immunology 2011, the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists in San Francisco, May 14th-17th. The conference, which is the largest annual immunology meeting worldwide, featured…
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…
TCG is a 2011 Inner City 100 Winner
TCG has been named by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and Fortune Magazine as one of the 100 fastest growing inner city companies in the United States. The Inner City 100 program recognizes successful inner city companies and their…
May 16, 2011
NGMA Announces Federal Grants Management Training Webinar
The National Grants Management Association (NGMA) in alliance with Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP is hosting a grants training webinar “Program Income–What Federal Strings Are Attached?” on Tuesday, May 17th starting at 2:00 p.m. EDT. Click here for more information and…
May 13, 2011
LAMHDI Team Exhibiting at Immunology 2011 Conference
TCG’s LAMHDI Team will be exhibiting at Immunology 2011, the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists in San Francisco starting May 14th. TCG built and is maintaining LAMHDI for the National Center for Research Resources under contract…
May 9, 2011
LAMHDI and Semantic Web Technology
LAMHDI is featured in the current issue of the NCRR Reporter in an article entitled “Leveraging the Semantic Web.” Semantic Web technology helps search engines to gather data more intelligently and understand the meaning of the collected information. TCG built…