Category: Government Technology
March 18, 2008
Big Dog: $10m of your money put to good use
Big Dog is a quadruped robot developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). This thing can traverse rough territory while carrying significant payloads, which could be very useful in situations such as battle, health…
March 14, 2008
Grants Management Events Calendar
For a while I’ve been frustrated that there’s no one single source of information about grants management events. Between Grants.gov, the Grants Policy Committee, GMLOB, NGMA, NGP, and FDP, there’s a lot going on! So I decided to make one, and just added…
March 11, 2008
Today’s NGP Meeting: Change of Webcast address
Due to technical difficulties, the address for the Webcast of today’s NGP meeting has been changed to http://www.thengp.org/meetings/20080311/Registration.htm. Register there ahead of the event to get all of the video goodness, courtesy of Ken Fang and the good folks at…
March 7, 2008
Heed the advice of Darren Ash!
Darren Ash joined the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as CIO a few months ago and had a guest column published in The Federal Times this week. You can read it here. (Disclosure: Darren was a client of ours at DOT.) In the column,…
NGP meeting: March 11
Judging on several of my recent posts, I think I’ve become the grants community’s social secretary! Here’s another one for your diaries: The National Grants Partnership (NGP) meeting is on March 11th at the Department of Education in Washington, DC. You…
March 6, 2008
2007 ExcellenceGov Awards White Paper released!
We finally completed the white paper documenting the lessons learned by the top five winners of last year’s Excellence.Gov Awards, and you can grab it here. The theme in 2007 was Lessons Learned to Leverage Technology to Enhance Collaboration. There…
Register for the 2008 Excellence.Gov Awards luncheon!
Registration is now open for the annual Excellence.Gov Awards luncheon, where all 20 of the award winners (list here) will be honored. The theme this year is “Improving Organizational Performance Using Information Technology”. (Disclosure: I’m the co-chair of the awards…
March 3, 2008
GMLOB alliances: The story so far
There has been much chattering and buzz about the fact that OMB should be providing GMLOB MOU feedback to agencies soon…if not having done so already. If you recall, agencies had to submit Memoranda of Understanding with GMLOB providers to…
February 20, 2008
2008 Excellence.Gov Top 20 announced
ACT-IAC released the list of the 2008 Excellence.Gov Awards Top 20 winners last night. I’m the co-chair of the awards this year and, as is true every year, competition was very difficult. The theme this year is “Improving Organizational Performance…
February 11, 2008
Grants.gov compatible with Adobe Reader 8.1.2
Just a tidbit this morning: Grants.gov has announced that they have tested Adobe Reader 8.1.2 with their forms and submission process, and all is well. So feel free to upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader (after checking with your…