Category: Government Technology
October 20, 2009
Grants.gov newsletter, Fall 2009, now available
OK, this is getting silly now. Another grants management announcement today! This time it’s Grants.gov’s fall newsletter. Some interesting stuff here:
54% increase in application submissions during FY 2009.
Recovery Act information on Grants.gov.
Submissions now being validated at Grants.gov…
Collaboration yields high return on investment
This new study from Frost & Sullivan concludes that organizations that use collaboration technologies yield significant benefits. The study was commissioned by Verizon and Cisco, so clearly there’s a focus on their products — VoIP, web meetings, and so on — with…
October 15, 2009
Grants.gov: “Don’t use Adobe Reader 9.2 yet!”
The Grants.gov PMO has released the following notice:
“Adobe has released Adobe Reader version 9.2. Grants.gov will begin testing version 9.2 to ensure compatibility. Once testing is complete we will provide you with notice. Please contact the Grants.gov Help Desk…
October 14, 2009
NGP meeting / webcast — October 20th
These are exciting times for the National Grants Partnership! A big announcement will be made by Tom Cooley of the GPC and the NGP co-chairs on October 20th, at the next meeting and webcast, so be sure to join us there.…
Grants.gov webcast October 21st
Grants.gov’s next webcast will be on October 21st…or so Bob Beattie (aka “Cheeky Monkey”) tells me. And it’s true, too! See? Turns out that Bob is a special guest star of this webcast — the first time a non-government person will be…
October 9, 2009
TCG Ranked #25 on Washington Business Journal List of Small Technology Companies
TCG has been recognized by Washington Business Journal as one of the Top 25 Small Technology Companies in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. TCG came in at #25. The list, which is based on rankings by 2008 metro-area revenue and…
September 29, 2009
OMB mandating Grants.gov again?
I was unable to attend the FDP meeting last week but colleagues tell me that some mention was made of OMB’s plan to once again mandate agency use of Grants.gov for all incoming grant applications.
OMB allowed agencies to use…
September 28, 2009
Interior chooses PRISM-Grants
I see today that the Department of the Interior has selected Compusearch’s PRISM-Grants product for their end-to-end grant lifecycle. From the Compusearch press release:
“At the conclusion of a comprehensive analysis of all of the available options, one of which was…
July 29, 2009
We like it when the government saves money
TCG has a corporate goal of saving the US taxpayer $1 billion by 2016, by improving how government works. So we love it when we see news like this, showing how the government is saving $100 million in budget cuts for…
July 25, 2009
Grants.gov GAO report news links
GAO’s recent report about Grants.gov has garnered a lot of coverage across the web and in print. Here are some of the links I’ve been following:
Senators, GAO Criticize Grants.gov [National Journal]
GAO: Grants.gov has serious weaknesses [Federal Computer Week]
GAO:…