Category: Government Technology

August 21, 2007

FCW picks up FFATA data competition story

Following up from our post last week about this subject, Jason Miller at FCW today reports that GSA is now competing the requirement for data for FedSpending.gov. Jason has a knack for getting good information about the whys and wherefores of…
August 17, 2007

GSA now competing FFATA database work

Matt Jillings at Compusearch pinged me about this posting [PDF version] on FedBizOpps for “The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) Data”. This seems to replace the prior sole source procurement intended for Eagle Eye, who developed FedSpending.org. I wonder…
August 3, 2007

FFATA needs subaward pilot help

I got this from the NGP a few days ago and just now have time to post it here. If anyone’s interested in helping think through subaward reporting for FATA, contact Tyson Whitney or Barbara Dorf.…
July 26, 2007

GSA buying OMB Watch’s FedSpending.org solution for FFATA

Well it looks like GSA is going to base FederalSpending.gov, the Web site intended to meet the requirements of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA), on OMB Watch’s FedSpending.org site, which was created by a contractor called Eagle Eye.…
July 23, 2007

FFATA update from FCW

Jason Miller at FCW has just published an article providing some very interesting details about progress towards fulfilling the requirements of FFATA, such as: By July 31, DOD expects to begin testing the technology behind what OMB officials hope will…
July 19, 2007

Grants.gov Webcast 7/19/2007

I missed the first 30 minutes of the webcast due to a conflicting meeting. Here are the notes I took from 30 minutes in. [UPDATE: The slide presentation, including the bits that I missed, is available here.]…
July 11, 2007

Intellipedia — how Intelligence agencies use blogs, wikis, and social software

This is a really interesting presentation about how intelligence agencies use social software (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc.) to get their work done better. It’s really quite fascinating about how they’ve cut facetime and improved productivity. The presenter, Chris Rasmussen (Knowledge Management…

Grants.gov Webcast, July 19th

I thought some of you may be interested in this upcoming event! Please join us for the next Grants.gov Stakeholder Webcast on Thursday, July 19, 2007, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. This meeting will be a webcast only; registration is NOT…
July 10, 2007

Essential US e‑gov reading

This is a quote from Tim Young of OMB about the push behind the e‑gov initiatives, taken from an AFFIRM round-table discussion documented on FCW: We have a saying in the office — OMB Deputy Director for Management] Clay Johnson penned this…
July 9, 2007

Grants.gov Adbobe Reader compatibility

Also posted to Grants.gov today is this notice: Statement from Adobe on Version Compatibility Adobe is aware of several issues with Adobe Reader when used with Grants.gov application forms and is working closely with Grants.gov to remedy these issues. These…