Category: Government Technology

July 18, 2006

Federal Transition Framework

OMB has released the Federal Transition Framework, which aims to consolidate information about cross-agency initiatives into one catalog. This is useful for agencies who need to align budgets with these initiatives and demonstrate they’ve done so through their EAs. Right…
July 13, 2006

Awards database legislation passes the House

As reported in GCN, the Blunt/Davis bill to create a single database of federal assistance awards has passed the House and will be considered by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. More transparency in the federal funding process…
July 10, 2006

Federal Transition Framework briefing

The government’s Chief Enterprise Architect, Dick Burk, is giving a briefing on the Federal Transition Framework (FTF) on Thursday, and it’s open to anyone with an interest in Federal enterprise architecture. Check out the FedBizOpps posting for all the details. Many…
July 7, 2006

Grants.gov gets new look-n-feel

Grants.gov just got a make-over. Check out the new-look site!…
February 24, 2006

Excellence.Gov Awards 2006, Top 5 Award Winners

Back on February 15, I attended the Excellence.Gov Awards which were organized by the Collaboration & Transformation SIG of the Industry Advisory Council. There were 20 finalists this year, with five award winners highlighted. Those five are: Bidirectional Health Information Exchange, Departments…

A bizarre analogy for government contracting

This article on GovExec.com, about the reworked Alliant GWAC, contains a truly fantastic analogy about a problem that plagues many government IT procurements. A typical federal statement of work resembles a grocery list, when it should resemble a directory of food categories, he said.…

Congressman Wu: “Federal Dollars Should Benefit The Whole, Not Just Majority” — (Medford Article)

I see that Oregon Congressman David Wu has sent a letter has sent a letter about Grants.gov’s Mac compatibility issue to Joshua Bolten, Director of OMB: I am personally troubled by the overarching discrimination against Mac-users simply because they are considered the…
February 13, 2006

Mac solution for Grants.gov

Over at my personal blog, where I mirror the grants-related posts I make here, Dave Schroeder of the University of Wisconin published this happy news: The University of Wisconsin has released a standalone package for using Grants.gov on Mac OS X as a service…

Grants.gov won’t be platform-agnostic

Yesterday I posted about a Washington Post article that was highly critical of Grants.gov’s inability to provide e‑forms for the Mac platform. One comment on that post really set me thinking. Claus Wilkes noted that while a Mac e‑forms client would help, the…
February 12, 2006

Washington Post slams Grants.gov’s Mac Woes

Looks like the mainstream press has caught wind of Grants.gov’s electronic forms Mac compatibility problems: The Washington Post’s Federal Page features an article about it tomorrow. The article is unfortunately sensationalist and is factually incorrect as a result — Grants.gov is…