NextGov highlights an OMB Watch report that discusses the challenges facing e‑gov initiatives that are funded using a “pass-the-hat” approach. Grants.gov is one of these initiatives, and faces multiple challenges in this area, as a recent GAO report about Grants.gov examined.…

Much of the discussion lately in the grants management systems community has been about the upcoming recompete of the Grants.gov IT support contract, currently held by General Dynamics IT. A sources sought was issued in April and now word reaches me…

The Federal Demonstration Partnership held its last meeting in late January, and all the presentations are now available on their web site. There’s some very informative data here: Updates from NIH, NSF, NASA, ONR, AFOSR, and USDA The Future of…

Mark Forman, the former OMB leader responsible for initiation of the Grants Management Line of Business (GMLoB), has announced that he will be “joining a colleague of mine in government reform, jumping into the cloud, with a cloud-computing initiative around grants filing.”…

Head on over to http://videocast.nih.gov at 1pm on February 2nd to join the Grants.gov Stakeholder Webcast. Looks like an interesting agenda: Introduction – Webcast Participants Grant.gov Status Update Grants.gov/Grantsolution Partnership Grantsolution Services Grants.gov/COE Discussion Grants.gov Support Q&A – Questions from…