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March 31, 2009
NGP meeting & webcast today 1.30pm
Just a reminder that the National Grants Partnership hosts a regular meeting today at 1.30pm. If you haven’t registered to attend in person, don’t worry! You can view the webcast at no cost. For more information on this, check the agenda. Here’s…
We will return to Grants.gov, say several agencies
The Federal Times published an article yesterday with some interesting quotes and comments from several federal agencies who are now accepting grant applications through home-grown systems rather than using Grants.gov. Of those interviewed by The Federal Times, the consensus appears…
March 24, 2009
Grants.gov gets new leadership
Grants.gov has a new program manager to guide it through the challenges of servicing the Recovery Act. Phillip Clark, a member of the HHS Office of the Chief Information Officer, will be Acting Program Manager as Eben Trevino moves to become Senior…
According to a couple of studies, our core values help team morale
According to two studies, companies or teams or groups where the leader of the group is fair and honest will perform better than teams where the that is not seen as accurate.
This is kind of a “duh” study, but…
Standardize the clouds!
…Or at least that’s what we should do if cloud computing is to gain broad adoption, according to experts who spoke at the Strategies and Technologies for Cloud Computing Interoperability meeting this week (Washington Technology report).
My observations of this…
FDP posts draft agenda for May meeting
The FDP has now posted the draft agenda for their May meeting, which includes a panel on how to manage and administer ARRA funds, as well as the usual federal agency updates. I won’t be at this meeting, even though Newport Beach,…
March 23, 2009
“Show me the subawards data!” sayeth Coburn
As reported in Federal Computer Week today, Sen. Tom Coburn has asked OMB why subaward data is not yet available on USASpending.gov. A pilot program was in progress in the middle of last year but little about realizing the end goal…
March 20, 2009
Reauthorization of PL106-107 moves ahead
Cornelia Chebinou of the NGP just pinged the membership with this good news:
Please be advised that on Tuesday, March 17, 2009, the Senate passed S. 303, the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 2009, which would reauthorize P.L. 106–107.…
CGI and Grantium team for hosted ARRA grants management solution
This release just crossed the wires and I thought it would be of interest to a few readers. Seems like CGI Federal and Grantium have teamed up to provide a hosted grants management solution focused on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grants.…
March 18, 2009
2009 Excellence.Gov Awards finalists announced
ACT-IAC has just announced the finalists for this year’s Excellence.Gov Awards, the theme of which is “Transparency: Using IT to improve the interaction between Government and its Stakeholders.” A list of the finalists is below, in alphabetical order. The top 5 finalists…