Category: Government Technology
April 2, 2009
Buying COTS grants management systems, and aligning with GMLOB
A couple of years ago I made some presentations at the NGMA Conference, and posted them here via Slideshare. That system tells me that the presentations are getting a lot of views lately. As it’s clearly of interest again, I thought it might…
Grantium announces “Find & Apply Portal” alternative to Grants.gov
Grantium has now issued its own press release (following from that issued by CGI Federal a while ago) about their alternative solution to Grants.gov, called the Find & Apply Portal.
Grantium’s Grants Find & Apply Portal is an alternative solution to Grants.gov, delivering…
April 1, 2009
Grants.gov hits new highs, and tracks Recovery Act opportunities
Two great pieces of news hit the Grants.gov blog yesterday:
Grants.gov has experienced an unprecedented volume on the website. The hits on the site have increased 115% from December 08 (800K) to March 09 (1.8M).
In the three week period…
March 31, 2009
We will return to Grants.gov, say several agencies
The Federal Times published an article yesterday with some interesting quotes and comments from several federal agencies who are now accepting grant applications through home-grown systems rather than using Grants.gov. Of those interviewed by The Federal Times, the consensus appears…
March 24, 2009
Grants.gov gets new leadership
Grants.gov has a new program manager to guide it through the challenges of servicing the Recovery Act. Phillip Clark, a member of the HHS Office of the Chief Information Officer, will be Acting Program Manager as Eben Trevino moves to become Senior…
Standardize the clouds!
…Or at least that’s what we should do if cloud computing is to gain broad adoption, according to experts who spoke at the Strategies and Technologies for Cloud Computing Interoperability meeting this week (Washington Technology report).
My observations of this…
March 18, 2009
2009 Excellence.Gov Awards finalists announced
ACT-IAC has just announced the finalists for this year’s Excellence.Gov Awards, the theme of which is “Transparency: Using IT to improve the interaction between Government and its Stakeholders.” A list of the finalists is below, in alphabetical order. The top 5 finalists…
March 17, 2009
Grants.gov to be updated in 90–120 days
Jason Miller at Federal News Radio posted an update to our story last week about OMB’s concerns over Grants.gov’s ability to handle the expected surge in grant applications:
“The Department of Health and Human Services expects to upgrade the Grants.gov…
March 11, 2009
Grants.gov has “significant risk of failure” says OMB
OMB’s Director has issued a memo instructing federal agencies to “submit recommended alternatives [to Grants.gov for receiving grant applications] … for review and approval by March 13, 2009” because a system review has revealed that Grants.gov has “significant risk of failure” and…
March 9, 2009
Federal cloud computing workshop on March 23
Shahid Shah alerted me to the Strategies and Technologies for Cloud Computing Interoperability (SATCCI) event on March 23rd in Crystal City, Virginia (just outside Washington, DC). As Shahid notes on the Federal Architect blog:
The Obama Administration in general and…