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March 19, 2010
2010 Excellence.Gov Awards Top 20 Announced
Just received the good word from ACT-IAC that the top 20 finalists for this year’s Excellence.Gov Awards can be announced. So here goes…!
Each year, the Excellence.Gov Awards recognize the federal government’s best IT projects. This year’s theme, “Game Changers: Significant…
March 15, 2010
GAO issues FFATA report
On Friday GAO issued its expected report on FFATA. The summary is here and the full document is available here. The key findings are that:
Subaward data isn’t close to be collected, and should be
Data quality is questionable, with most…
February 23, 2010
2010 Excellence.Gov Awards registration now open
The Excellence.Gov Awards recognize the very best in government IT programs every year, and registration for this year’s awards luncheon is now open at the ACT/IAC web site. The event will be held on April 29, starting at 11.30am. (Disclosure:…
Tom Cooley joining Deloitte
I thought others would be interested to learn that Tom Cooley, former CFO of the National Science Foundation, chair of the Grants Policy Committee, and mover-‘n’-shaker in grants management in general, is set to join Deloitte & Touché. More information is…
February 12, 2010
Global Warming Can Cause Snow!
Watching the evening news, I saw yet another person ponder the unusually cold weather and claim “I thought global warming was supposed to be a bigger deal…”. Here’s the fun fact: global warming causes amazing new patterns of snow and heat, consistent…
February 9, 2010
NGMA webcast moved to 2/17/10 (confirmed)
This is still in flux a little but the NGMA webcast scheduled for tomorrow (February 10th) is tentatively rescheduled to February 17th. NGMA will confirm this soon, I’m sure.
Update 2/9/10 14:52: The rescheduled meeting is now confirmed for 2/17/10. All existing…
February 4, 2010
NGP requests Grants.gov improvement suggestions
From our friends at the National Grants Partnership:
The team at Grants.gov is soliciting your input to the below questions concerning the next generation of Grants.gov. We would appreciate if you could provide you thoughts to thengp@aol.com no later than…
January 26, 2010
Grants.gov wants your enhancement suggestions
Grants.gov has published a form on which applicants can submit suggestions for ways in which the system could be improved. Weirdly, it’s a Word document (how about an online form?!) but it’s certainly an excellent step to gather customer comments and suggestions…
Maryland’s Merril Oliver Appointed to Presidential Executive Order Workgroup
Hot news just in from NGMA:
The President of the National Grants Management Association (NGMA) and Deputy Director of the Maryland Governor’s Grants Office, Merril Oliver, was appointed today to an Executive Order workgroup signed into effect by President Barack Obama,…
January 21, 2010
GSA setting up “Grants Management” schedule
GSA is setting up a new “Grants Management” SIN (Special Item Number) on their Financial and Business Solutions (FABS) Schedule, a GSA contract through which Federal agencies can buy services. An industry day is being held tomorrow. Registration info is here. The…