Author: David Cassidy
October 26, 2006
Google seeks access to Grants.gov data (and others) — what about RSS?
They’re already indexing every book on the planet, so why not government data? GovExec reports that Google is trying to open government data to Internet search engines (though I can’t imagine which one they have in mind!) to better enable users…
October 23, 2006
GCN article about FM and GM integration
Jason Miller just filed new story for GCN discussing how the Financial Management Line of Business (FMLOB) and Grants Management Line of Business (GMLOB) are working together to figure out how they intersect. Yours truly is quoted in there (I’m…
October 13, 2006
The value of government (and government IT)
Over on the GCN blogs, Tom Temin posted an article titled “Is YouTube more valuable than say Grants gov?” in which he reports on SAP America’s funding of a study to quantify the value of government. I don’t know why he mentioned…
Nominate your project for the 2007 Excellence.Gov Awards!
I’m the Chair of the ACT/IAC Excellence.Gov Awards this year. The awards are a very big deal in government and industry circles, and this year we’re focusing on “Leveraging Technology to Enhance Collaboration”. The idea is to highlight the very best…
October 6, 2006
OMB Watch launching FedSpending.org
OMB Watch just sent out invitations to the launch of FedSpending.org, the database of Federal funding and awards that is something of a model for the Federal Financial Transparency and Accountability Act (FFATA), formerly known as bill S.2590. I can’t attend but…
October 5, 2006
Complete this survey!
Are you a grantee? Use a grants system? You should complete this survey. (Full disclosure: I’m the Co-Chair of this committee!)
If you haven’t already responded to the National Grants Partnership survey regarding the use of standards in grants management and administration,…
We’re building the Neuroimaging Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC)
Our company was recently awarded a new contract from NIH to build and operate the Neuroimaging Tools and Resources Clearinghouse, which we’re calling NITRC (pronounced “ni-trick”). We are incredibly excited by this project and have already begun work. From our press…
Grants.gov outages and SI transition
Grants.gov just released a notice about their plan for transitioning to the new system integrator, Anteon/General Dynamics. Headline: The system will be down this Sunday, October 8th, from 10am ET to 6pm ET! All other planned outages are contained in this…
Unannounced Grants.gov file format change causes problems
Users of Grants.Gov’s XML downloads of funding opportunity announcements got an unpleasant surprise recently: the XML files changed, without any announcement or forewarning. The problem is apparently in the XML date elements:
PostDate
ApplicationsDueDate
ArchiveDate
Up to now, the ISO…
Grants performance accountability and the PART
GovExec has a nice piece about GAO-06–1046, the report I blogged about a while ago. GovExec’s article has a nice summary of why the report was requested:
The study was requested by Rep. Todd Platts, R‑Pa., chairman of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on…