Author: David Cassidy

February 15, 2007

Profile of HHS/ACF GMLOB provider

Somehow I missed this when it was published earlier in the month (bad, Google Search, bad!) but GCN has a nice profile of the Administration for Children and Families’ GMLOB offering, GrantSolutions.gov. The article explains what the motivations were behind ACF nominating…

Federal Spending is up!

I see that the Web site intended to help guide development of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) system is live! Through the Federal Spending site, anyone can submit comments to the FFATA Task Force that’s working on the…
January 31, 2007

Budget proposal to detail benefits of IT consolidation

GovExec has an interesting tidbit: The Bush administration’s fiscal 2008 budget proposal will detail the financial benefits of an effort to consolidate back-office information technology systems across government, an Office of Management and Budget official said Tuesday. Presumably this will…
January 30, 2007

Agencies to publish budget justifications online

I hadn’t heard this little piece of news until it was reported on GovExec’s FedBlog. Government-watchers will get a boost this year from an Office of Management and Budget directive that requires agencies to post the documentation behind their budget requests online.…
January 29, 2007

OMB management chief welcomes Democratic oversight

Clay Johnson of OMB, our speaker for the 2007 Excellence.Gov Awards, is in the new with a report at GovExec regarding his welcoming the new Democratic Congressional oversight: Clay Johnson, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget,…

Annual CTO Forum — 2/7/07, Arlington, VA

I just saw this announcement and thought a few readers may be interested in the topic of data sharing and interoperability.…
January 26, 2007

Excellence.Gov luncheon registration now open!

ACT/IAC just issued this announcement. I’m looking forward to seeing you all at the awards! 2007 Excellence.Gov Awards Ceremony 2/20/07 — Keynote from Clay Johnson III of OMB — Registration now open! The 2007 Excellence.Gov Awards finalists will be recognized…
January 24, 2007

Misnomer of the week: E‑gov = shutting down old systems

Wyatt Kash at GCN has a message for OMB: by shutting down legacy e‑gov systems, “the administration can strengthen its case for cross-agency funding of these, and future, e‑government projects.” Grants.gov is perhaps the best example of an e‑government initiative that…
January 19, 2007

MS Office Hidden Data Removal tool

Matt Eliot, a colleague here at TCG, suggested this tool in response to my complaints of people leaving comments and tracked changes in Word documents. Rich Renomeron also told me that it works in all Office programs, not just Word. Unfortunately…
January 16, 2007

Excellence.Gov Awards top 5 decided / speaker announcement soon!

This morning the 2007 Excellence.Gov Awards judges settled on the top 5 award winners. I can’t tell you who they are — for that you’ll need to attend the February 20 lunch at the Mandarin Oriental in Washington DC (registration details are…