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April 14, 2009
NITRC projects wins Excellence.Gov Award!
I have some very exciting news: One of our projects has won the overall, top 2009 Excellence.Gov Award! The NIH’s Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) project was recognized for its achievements in helping researchers collaborate to develop even…
April 10, 2009
FederalNewsRadio story on latest Grants.gov memo
Jason Miller of FederalNewsRadio has more details about the memo OMB released yesterday (with some quotes from OMB’s Tom Gavin, yours truly, and Mark Ace of Cayuse). Text story, audio story. Apparently OMB expects four agencies — Education, DHS, Justice,…
April 9, 2009
OMB directs agencies to pay for Grants.gov improvements
OMB released a new memo last night, directing agencies to provide past-due and new funds to support the improvement of Grants.gov. Attachment A of the memo shows that OMB expects agencies to send over $12 million to Grants.gov by April 13th, $6…
April 7, 2009
A Fun Little Math Problem in System Optimization
Recently, a company with whom we work had a Web site that wasn’t as fast as they wanted. So they ran a series of tests using Apache’s benchmarking tool:
Running a simple “Hello World” page: 500 pages/second
“Hello World” plus turning on “feature A”:…
April 3, 2009
Grants.gov schedules webcast for April 15
The next Grants.gov webcast will be on April 15 at 1pm EDT. No registration is required. Just click here at 1pm on April 15th! Here’s the agenda:
Introduction
Grants.gov Quarterly Update
Grants.gov and the Recovery Act
Grants.gov Recently Accomplished System…
April 2, 2009
Next NGP meeting — June 9, 2009
The next NGP meeting will be on June 9, 2009. When the agenda is released, don’t forget to register!…
Buying COTS grants management systems, and aligning with GMLOB
A couple of years ago I made some presentations at the NGMA Conference, and posted them here via Slideshare. That system tells me that the presentations are getting a lot of views lately. As it’s clearly of interest again, I thought it might…
Grantium announces “Find & Apply Portal” alternative to Grants.gov
Grantium has now issued its own press release (following from that issued by CGI Federal a while ago) about their alternative solution to Grants.gov, called the Find & Apply Portal.
Grantium’s Grants Find & Apply Portal is an alternative solution to Grants.gov, delivering…
April 1, 2009
Earl Warrington/Recovery.gov speaking at NGMA meeting today
Earl Warrington, Program Manager for Recovery.gov, is speaking at today’s National Grants Management Association training luncheon. Should be an interesting talk. If you didn’t get a chance to register, never fear! A webcast of the event will be available on a tape-delay basis.*…
Grants.gov hits new highs, and tracks Recovery Act opportunities
Two great pieces of news hit the Grants.gov blog yesterday:
Grants.gov has experienced an unprecedented volume on the website. The hits on the site have increased 115% from December 08 (800K) to March 09 (1.8M).
In the three week period…