Author: David Cassidy
November 13, 2008
NGMA Training on Wednesday!
Just a reminder that the NGMA is holding its next training luncheon on Wednesday. Here are the details:
OMB Circular A‑102: The “Common Rule” and 2CFR Part 215 — Uniform Administrative Requirements:
Speaker: Janice Joyce & Jean Feldman, National Science Foundation
Program…
GMLOB on Presidential transition radar
I just saw this page from the GAO’s Presidential transition site, which includes the following:
In 2005, GAO recommended that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget ensure that efforts to develop common grant-reporting systems, such as through this…
October 15, 2008
Grants.gov Newsletter Fall 2008 now available
It’s here! The major headline is that Grants.gov has passed the 200,000 application mark for FY2008. Quite an achievement!…
GPC Webcast: October 28th, 2pm‑3.30pm
Jason Miller of Federal News Radio alerted me to this notice. Attendance in person is limited to 50 people but the webcast is open to all-comers. See the Grants Management Events Calendar for more details (iCal, HTML). According to the…
October 10, 2008
Two events you should know about
I just added these to the Grants Management Events Calendar (remember to subscribe!):
Grants.gov Stakeholders Webcast
http://www.hhs.gov/grants/webcast/index.html
Please join us for the next Grants.gov Stakeholder Webcast on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EDT. This meeting will…
September 23, 2008
100% of TCG Project Managers Now PMP Certified
TCG achieved yet another milestone this week: every single one of our project managers is now Project Management Professional (PMP) certified by the Project Management Institute. Nina Preuss crossed the line (in a good way) — good job, Nina! You can…
September 17, 2008
Transparency Act RFI
Well this one slipped me by! At yesterday’s NGP meeting, it was announced that OMB has issued an RFI regarding implementation of the subaward reporting component of the Transparency Act. The RFI is here. I’m still digesting it but wanted…
September 15, 2008
Grants.gov opportunity e‑mails to end
Take note! Grants.gov will be terminating its opportunity notification e‑mails very soon. Everyone should shift to using the Grants.gov RSS feeds.…
September 12, 2008
Coburn unhappy with currency of USAspending.gov data
As reported on NextGov yesterday, Senator Tom Coburn, one of the original sponsors of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (aka “FFATA”) is unhappy about the timeliness of some agencies’ data in USAspending.gov. As Robert Shea, the OMB executive…
September 9, 2008
Grants.gov seeks cloud computing solution
Grants.gov is seeking information from companies capable of providing a “cloud computing” solution to support its needs, as this sources sought notice shows:
The core business of Grants.gov is: forms (development with business rules, testing, and deployment); the data residing…