Author: David Cassidy
March 31, 2009
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…
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.…
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…
March 17, 2009
Grants.gov to be updated in 90–120 days
Jason Miller at Federal News Radio posted an update to our story last week about OMB’s concerns over Grants.gov’s ability to handle the expected surge in grant applications:
“The Department of Health and Human Services expects to upgrade the Grants.gov…
March 11, 2009
Grants.gov has “significant risk of failure” says OMB
OMB’s Director has issued a memo instructing federal agencies to “submit recommended alternatives [to Grants.gov for receiving grant applications] … for review and approval by March 13, 2009” because a system review has revealed that Grants.gov has “significant risk of failure” and…