May 4, 2009

Grants.gov report from GAO cites concerns

Last week the GAO released a report (GAO-09–590R) on the status of Grants.gov, in response to enquiries from Congressmen Voinovich, Towns, Lynch, and Davis. The report echoes many of the concerns expressed by OMB several weeks ago but GAO goes a few…

Federal grants management systems landscape

Last week I gave the presentation below at the Compusearch PRISM Educational Conference. On the panel with me were Katie Hermosilla (Booz Allen Hamilton) and Chae Shim and Tracy Mosson (Compusearch). Katie talked about the policy side of the grants management…
April 29, 2009

Grants.gov gets applause for recent build

Monday was the deadline for a large grant opportunity, and Grants.gov performed very well! Whatever measures the team has taken seems to have really helped. As one submitter from a university wrote on the Grants.gov system-to-system mailing list: “Like most folks, we…
April 28, 2009

GDIT gets Grants.gov sole source contract extension

Grants.gov has determined (through a very rigorous process) that only General Dynamics IT, their current contractor, can help them through this frantic period of activity and meet the goals of the Recovery Act, and has awarded them a contract extension, as this…
April 17, 2009

Interview with NITRC project manager on FederalNewsRadio

Following up from NITRC’s Excellence.Gov Award win earlier this week, FederalNewsRadio has posted an article and audio story, including an interview with Nina Preuss, TCG’s NITRC project manager. Nina is quite right: We didn’t expect NITRC to win this award…
April 15, 2009

Presentation of NITRC’s Excellence.gov Award

We took a little video of (some of) the NITRC team accepting their Excellence.gov Award yesterday. Included in the video are James Luo, Nina Preuss, David Kennedy, Christian Haselgrove, and Dan Turner. Shoddy camerawork is by me (for which I apologize!).…
April 14, 2009

NITRC projects wins Excellence.Gov Award!

I have some very exciting news: One of our projects has won the overall, top 2009 Excellence.Gov Award! The NIH’s Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) project was recognized for its achievements in helping researchers collaborate to develop even…
April 10, 2009

FederalNewsRadio story on latest Grants.gov memo

Jason Miller of FederalNewsRadio has more details about the memo OMB released yesterday (with some quotes from OMB’s Tom Gavin, yours truly, and Mark Ace of Cayuse). Text story, audio story. Apparently OMB expects four agencies — Education, DHS, Justice,…
April 9, 2009

OMB directs agencies to pay for Grants.gov improvements

OMB released a new memo last night, directing agencies to provide past-due and new funds to support the improvement of Grants.gov. Attachment A of the memo shows that OMB expects agencies to send over $12 million to Grants.gov by April 13th, $6…
April 3, 2009

Grants.gov schedules webcast for April 15

The next Grants.gov webcast will be on April 15 at 1pm EDT. No registration is required. Just click here at 1pm on April 15th! Here’s the agenda: Introduction Grants.gov Quarterly Update Grants.gov and the Recovery Act Grants.gov Recently Accomplished System…