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September 6, 2007
More details on new GMLOB direction
Following up Friday’s OMB e‑mail that requires agencies to designate a GMLOB consortia lead by December 31, the Grants Executive Board today held a meeting that offered a few more details about the policy, exceptions, and other matters. The following notes are based…
September 5, 2007
FDP Meeting — meet up?
I’m attending the FDP meeting next week in Washington, DC, and if anyone would like to meet up, let me know! The agenda looks pretty good, especially now that OMB has re-energized the GMLOB!…
Mythbusting — be careful!
In the Washington Post today was a story (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR2007090300933.html) about research by Norbert Schwartz into what people actually understand when myths are “busted.” (See “Metacognitive
Experiences And The Intricacies Of Setting People Straight:
Implications For Debiasing And Public Information Campaigns from…
September 3, 2007
OMB on GMLOB: “Align with one the three Consortia Leads. There’ll be no more”
On Friday OMB made a significant announcement about the GMLOB to the CIO Council mailing list:
In the FY07 President’s Budget, OMB designated three agencies as consortia leads for the Grants Management Line of Business (GM LoB): the Department of Education,…
August 31, 2007
Wanna be President? Sign an Oath of Transparency!
GovExec reports that three Presidential hopefuls have signed an oath pledging to support FedSpending.gov (FFATA), should they win office next year. The Oath of Presidential Transparency is being led by the Reason Foundation and Sens. Barack Obama, D‑Ill., and Sam…
August 24, 2007
SF-424 to change for FFATA
Bob Beattie of the University of Michigan asked the Grants.gov S2S mailing list whether data elements on the 424 might change because of the requirements of the FFATA and Kim Deutsch of the NSF responded. I thought this would be of…
August 21, 2007
FCW picks up FFATA data competition story
Following up from our post last week about this subject, Jason Miller at FCW today reports that GSA is now competing the requirement for data for FedSpending.gov. Jason has a knack for getting good information about the whys and wherefores of…
August 20, 2007
The Inner Life of the Cell
This incredible video was made by some folks at Harvard (supporting by the quite-wonderful Howard Hughes Medical Institute) and came to my attention through the NIH Biomedical Computing Interest Group. Really quite an incredible view of the mechanics of life. …
August 17, 2007
GSA now competing FFATA database work
Matt Jillings at Compusearch pinged me about this posting [PDF version] on FedBizOpps for “The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) Data”. This seems to replace the prior sole source procurement intended for Eagle Eye, who developed FedSpending.org. I wonder…
August 3, 2007
FFATA needs subaward pilot help
I got this from the NGP a few days ago and just now have time to post it here. If anyone’s interested in helping think through subaward reporting for FATA, contact Tyson Whitney or Barbara Dorf.…