Author: David Cassidy
July 18, 2005
Accelerating Grants Streamlining — NGP paper #1 released!
The first NGP White Paper, Accelerating Grants Streamlining: Furthering the Recommendations of GAO’s Grants Streamlining Report,
was released a few hours ago. I’m the co-chair of the NGP White Paper
Series Committee and the team did a really fantastic job in putting…
July 6, 2005
Google! — grants and open source
I spotted this post on Slashdot about some old Google pages that are available on WayBackMachine.com, which is an archive of Internet sites and web pages. One of the pages in the archive is the old About Google! page, and…
NasBackup and the amazing Butch
TCG has a bunch of staff spread across the country. This presents a number of technical challenges for data security and corporate data integrity. We’ve put in place measures such as our VPN, which has created an internal “LAN” that’s proving very…
Implementing GAO’s grants recommendations
A few of us in the National Grants Partnership (NGP) are putting together a white paper titled “Accelerating Grants Streamlining: Furthering the Recommendations of the GAO Grants Streamlining Report”. GAO’s April report regarding grants streamlining made several recommendations [links to my…
GSA: “Tell us if you’re open”
According to FCW, GSA wants vendors on their Schedule 70 contract to “identify the open standards their products support.” This is a fantastic idea. If you’ve ever reviewed a vendor’s GSA Schedule contract, you’ll know that picking apart the specifications of what’s…