September 25, 2007

New technology transfer resource

Sharon McLoone’s Small Business blog pointed out a great resource for entrepreneurs looking for new innovations to take to market: the iBridge Network. This is “an online searchable database with the latest news in research, technologies and findings at U.S. universities.…

GAO says LOB funding contravenes appropriations law

Chris Dorobek’s blog is proving really useful! He’s highlighted a GAO report about DHS’s use of shared services, and notes that GAO has come to quite alarming conclusions: “the legal principles are clear. [DHS] officials stated that the directorate pooled funds…

We’re aiming to save taxpayers $1 billion by 2011

We just announced our new company goal: To save taxpayers $1 billion by 2011!  You can read all about it on our Web site.  To create this goal and track our progress we’ve spent the better part of this year…
September 20, 2007

FDP starts government grantor systems wiki

FDP’s inimitable Ron Splittgerber of Colorado State has taken it upon himself to start a wiki that will document agency grant systems, interfaces, forms, and a host of other great information. The prototype is up here and will be based on data…

Brain Storming Web 2.0 at NIH

Via the ever-wonderful BCIG mailing list I got notice of this very interesting Web 2.0 initiative at NIH, which is exploring the application of those technologies at that revered (around here, anyway) agency. There’s an open discussion session being held on…
September 11, 2007

FDP: Grants.gov Update

Terry Nicolosi provided an update on the Grants.gov system. She was joined by Harsha Rao, Gary Alfano (both from General Dynamics), Doug Privelege (from Adobe), and Vince Sprouls. Lots of interesting information here, including the fact that IBM Workplace Forms…
September 10, 2007

FDP: FFATA SF-424 Forms Update

Jean Feldman talked about how the SF-424 needs to change to help FFATA compliance. Jean leads the SF424 Forms Families & FFATA Implementation Subcommittee. More after the link……

FDP: FFATA Update

I joined the session on FFATA a little late (Brad Stanford’s fault, honest!) but arrived just in time to see Gil Tran of OMB slay the crowd and take the title of Humorous Government Person at the FDP Meeting from Jean Feldman.…

The unsaid reason why agencies resist GMLOB

Last week and today I’ve been having interested chats with various people about GMLOB and attempts to consolidate grants management operations. One key point has emerged from these discussions and I thought it might be useful to describe it here. The…

FDP: GMOB Profiles

All three of the GMLOB consortia (NSF, Education, and HHS/ACF) gave an overview of their offerings today. Notes follow the jump……