Our prime contractor, Keane, announced today that our team has won a contract to provide IT support the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Service. TCG and Apptis are both subcontractors on the deal. Speaking for TCG, we’re very happy to…

Ken Fang of the excellent Altum Inc. kindly tapes and uploads video from each NGP meeting. The latest one has just been made available, at http://thengp.org/Meetings/20060912.htm. Apparently there was a slight audio drop-out during one presentation but otherwise it’s two hours…

Here are the details for the next NGP meeting: Date: November 14th Time: 1.30pm — 3.30pm Location: Department of Education, 10th Floor PCP Auditorium, 550 12th Street SW, Washington, DC. Web Conference: https://asap2.convoq.com/SchedMtg/Register.aspx?c=MT0987NTFS1J Register: E‑mail TheNGP@aol.com by noon on November…

S.2590 continues to make waves, with passage into law last week. GovExec has a report on this which includes comments from “An industry expert who requested anonymity expressed reservations about the new search tool.” Those comments seem to be remarkably well-informed…

HHS awards General Dynamics Grants gov deal.…

I just found out today that The Arlington Group, a provider of grants management software, has shut down! I hadn’t heard that they’d exited the marketplace or — more startlingly — closed completely. Their product, Easygrants, was a Microsoft .Net-based system and, to my…

MacNN tracks all things Apple. (They were my first port of call to read about the new iTV, for example!) They have a post today about the Grants.gov contract recompete, and the comments there demonstrate a clear lack of trust in Grants.gov…

Back in July, I posted that the Grants Policy Committee was organizing an open webcast. Details about that event are now available: DATES: The Committee will hold an open stakeholder meeting and Webcast on Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 11 a.m. to…

Upon re-reading this post today, I think that the prior version of the bulleted paragraph that begins “The e‑forms issue…” made statements that were unfounded given the lack of available public information about the InFlowSuite and Grants.gov’s system performance. I changed the…

Over at Partial Recall, Rob Fay notes that use of a Java e‑forms client may have been a more open, platform-neutral approach. I don’t share this view, and here’s why (comment reproduced from Partial recall): As long as an offline client is needed,…