Category: Government Technology
July 16, 2009
ARRA grantee webcasts now scheduled
Following up from an earlier post, I see that NGMA has announced the ARRA training provided by OMB:
July 20, 2009
10:00am — 12:00pm SECTION 1 — General Information
2:00pm — 4:00pm SECTION 2 — Basic Principles and Requirements of Recovery…
A Rising Star is among us — congratulations to Rich Renomeron!
One of TCG’s senior technical staff, Rich Renomeron, has been honored as a 2009 Rising Star by 1105 Government Information Group, publisher of Federal Computer Week, Washington Technology, and other government IT industry publications. From the announcement…
Now in its fourth…
July 15, 2009
Have I moved to California?
Grants.gov held its latest webcast (I believe) at 1pm today. So how come I got an e‑mail inviting me to attend that webcast at 1.44pm?
Answers in the comments, please……
GAO releases new Grants.gov report; recommends changes
Today GAO has released a report called “Grants.gov Has Systemic Weaknesses That Require Attention”; you can grab it here. The report highlights spell out some serious flaws in the governance, funding, design, and operation of Grants.gov, which are reasonably well known…
July 7, 2009
GSA funds new Grants.gov pilot
According to this posting on FedBizOpps, GSA is giving Symplicity Corporation some funds “to acquire a pilot that will facilitate the need to support the efforts of the Recovery Act of 2009 and rebuild and possible deployment (sic) of a working pilot…
June 1, 2009
NGMA lunch canceled
The NGMA training lunch at which Dominic Sale, the OMB GMLOB Portfolio Manager, was scheduled to speak has been canceled. Apparently things are so hectic at OMB that it’s proven impossible to schedule any appropriate time.
The next NGMA lunch…
May 29, 2009
NGP Meeting — June 9th — be there!
The agenda for the NGP’s June 9th meeting has been announced. Register at , and join us at 1.30pm at the Department of Education at 550 12th Street SW, Washington, DC, or via webcast at https://stage.tcg.com.acrobat.com/thengp.
GAO Study of Grants.gov…
MAX Federal Community on FederalNewsRadio
FederalNewsRadio has a story and a couple of interviews about the MAX Federal Community this week. (Note: TCG supports this system on behalf of OMB.) The Community is powering a lot of inter-agency collaboration across government. FederalNewsRadio interviewed Sandi McCabe at the Department…
May 26, 2009
NGMA lunch to be rescheduled
If you were planning on attending the NGMA training luncheon tomorrow, featuring Dominic Sale of OMB talking about “The Use of Technology in Managing Grants: Guidance and Direction — Recovery.gov and GMLOB”, then you can stop right now because it’s…
May 14, 2009
NITRC discusses keys to success
Yesterday the NITRC program participated in a panel discussion among the top five 2009 Excellence.Gov Awards. Government Computer News wrote up a nice little story about it, here.…