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January 30, 2008
FedRegister notice on SF424 R&R changes coming
On the Grants.gov mailing list yesterday, Vince Sprouls noted that:
“The SF424 R&R changes are going forward for the 60-day Notice publication this week and hopefully will be published within about a week after that.”
These changes primarily relate to additional data fields…
January 29, 2008
Choosing Between Being Hacked and Accidentally Breaking Services
As is good practice, on internal mission critical systems that are accessible from the Web, we run automatic security patching utilities (like yum and Microsoft Update). For example, we are currently running (and enjoying) Zimbra 4.5.10 OSS as our mail…
Another great example of online collaboration in government
In yesterday’s Washington Post, Stephen Barr’s Federal Diary column profiled OMB’s MAX Federal Community, a wiki that’s being used throughout government to speed decision-making and help agencies work across organizational boundaries. I love this stuff, primarily because technology is not the object…
Grants.gov now REQUIRES Adobe Reader 8.1.1
This is a very important announcement regarding compatibility of various versions of Adobe Reader with Grants.gov. Please take note!
Important Software Version Announcement: Adobe Reader 8.1.1 Required
When applying with Adobe Reader applications on Grants.gov, it is now required to download Adobe…
January 16, 2008
Grants.gov Winter 2008 Newsletter now available
You can get it here. Although surely it should be “January 2008 Newsletter”, unless they’re way ahead of schedule or I’m way behind.
I didn’t make it to the Grants.gov Webcast today. If you did, let us know what happened in…
January 9, 2008
Grants.gov Webcast announced — 1/16/08 13:00 EST
Happy New Year, everyone! I just got back from vacation and received this delightful missive:
Please join us for the next Grants.gov Stakeholder Webcast on Wednesday, January 16, 2008, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET. This meeting will be a webcast…
December 14, 2007
USASpending.gov garners praise from Congress
More from Jason Miller at FCW about the launch of USASpending.gov, including very complimentary comments from Tom Coburn and Tom Davis (These are very rare, so worth collecting!)…
December 13, 2007
FFATA Web site launched: USASpending.gov
‘Tis a momentous day for followers of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) as the Web site that meets the January 1st deadline stated in the law has been launched! USASpending.gov allows users to search grants and contracts (loans…
December 12, 2007
TCG Alum is famous!
We’ve had getting-up-towards 200 employees over the years. Many left when the company had hard times, some left because they found other work or had kids, we even lost two to Amazon and one to Microsoft. (Amazingly, our voluntary turnover…
Invitation to comment on the draft Federal Financial Report
The government is trying to consolidate federal financial reporting requirements and recently issued a Federal Register notice to invite comments on the latest draft of that consolidated report. Here’s the heads-up from the National Grants Partnership.
Attached (here [PDF]) please find…