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July 18, 2006
Federal Transition Framework
OMB has released the Federal Transition Framework, which aims to consolidate information about cross-agency initiatives into one catalog. This is useful for agencies who need to align budgets with these initiatives and demonstrate they’ve done so through their EAs.
Right now…
July 13, 2006
Awards database legislation passes the House
As reported in GCN, the Blunt/Davis bill to create a single database of federal assistance awards has passed the House and will be considered by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
More transparency in the federal funding process…
July 10, 2006
Federal Transition Framework briefing
The government’s Chief Enterprise Architect, Dick Burk, is giving a briefing on the Federal Transition Framework (FTF) on Thursday, and it’s open to anyone with an interest in Federal enterprise architecture. Check out the FedBizOpps posting for all the details. Many…
July 7, 2006
Grants.gov gets new look-n-feel
Grants.gov just got a make-over. Check out the new-look site!…
July 5, 2006
Independence Is Good, But We Need to Know Why
Just in time for the 4th of July, Kevin Shockey of Tux Magazine encourages users to “declare their independence from proprietary software.” By comparing the “revolution” of open source software, and desktop Linux in particular, to the American Revolution, he…
July 3, 2006
UVM grantee jailed for false research
Well, here’s something you don’t see often: a federal grantee has been thrown in the slammer for falsifying research in order to secure $3 million in federal funding! NIH’s own Dr. Sally Rockey said, ’ ”science itself is compromised” when a researcher falsifies…
May 8, 2006
Bomb, not Bombs?
On April 19, the Washington Post ran an article about a major renovation to the National Museum of American History. Included in the renovation is “a large devotional space for the Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired the national anthem.” Next…
May 3, 2006
CPAN (Net::FTP) for Perl Hangs on Cygwin
CPAN is an essential tool for Perl developers. With the “cpan” command, you can install whole Perl libraries effortlessly. However, on many default installations of cygwin, cpan simply hangs:
cpan> install LWP
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/MetadataDatabase…
April 12, 2006
Recovering RAID on Linux in Rescue Mode
The software RAID on Linux works very well. Our backup machine (still using Red Hat 9) uses a RAID‑5 with 6 drives: 4 hot and 2 reserve. When a main drive fails, a reserve is auto-magically brought in (thanks to the “md” daemon).
But last Sunday…
March 2, 2006
Biosecurity & Biodefense Organizations Resource — Federation of American Scientists
[Via FCW’s Blogs] I see that the Federation of American Scientists has set up the Biosecurity & Biodefense Organizations Resource, “an internet resource for biosecurity policy, bioterrorism information, and biodefense research. The organizations listed here represent various perspectives on what actions individual…