Category: Government Technology
May 23, 2011
NIH Awards First-Time Grant to Long-Time Grants Management Experts
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded TCG a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to develop a cloud-based data sharing system for neuroscience. While TCG has helped agencies manage tens of thousands of grants for others for 17 years,this is…
May 19, 2011
GAO report on Grants.gov is critical (again)
GAO is charged with monitoring the performance and progress achieved by Grants.gov over its lifetime and its latest report was released earlier this month. The highlights include:
Agencies are being charged by Grants.gov based on their size and not their…
Pass-the-hat funding gets a slap from OMB Watch
NextGov highlights an OMB Watch report that discusses the challenges facing e‑gov initiatives that are funded using a “pass-the-hat” approach. Grants.gov is one of these initiatives, and faces multiple challenges in this area, as a recent GAO report about Grants.gov examined.…
May 18, 2011
Grants.gov will be competed among 8(a) firms
Much of the discussion lately in the grants management systems community has been about the upcoming recompete of the Grants.gov IT support contract, currently held by General Dynamics IT. A sources sought was issued in April and now word reaches me…
May 17, 2011
AABPA Conducting Survey of Federal Budget Professionals
The American Association for Budget and Program Analysis (AABPA) has joined forces with Grant Thornton LLP to conduct a survey of Federal budget professionals. This survey covers budget formulation, budget and performance integration, budget execution, resource constraints, congressional issues, systems and…
April 20, 2011
LAMHDI Exhibits at Experimental Biology Conference
LAMHDI, the initiative to Link Animal Models to Human DIsease, exhibited at the recent Experimental Biology conference at the Washington Convention Center in DC. The conference attracted well over 10,000 researchers, students, exhibitors, and practitioners, many of whom visited the…
February 18, 2011
FDP January presentations now online
The Federal Demonstration Partnership held its last meeting in late January, and all the presentations are now available on their web site. There’s some very informative data here:
Updates from NIH, NSF, NASA, ONR, AFOSR, and USDA
The Future of…
February 14, 2011
AABPA announces Spring Symposium for May 11th, 2011
The AABPA symposia are always informative and helpful, with some excellent speakers. Details of the spring gathering were just sent out. Here’re the details:
Refine, Retool, Collaborate: The Future is Now
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Capital Hilton Hotel, 16th and…
January 26, 2011
Rumors of a new cloud-based grants filing initiative
Mark Forman, the former OMB leader responsible for initiation of the Grants Management Line of Business (GMLoB), has announced that he will be “joining a colleague of mine in government reform, jumping into the cloud, with a cloud-computing initiative around grants filing.”…
January 20, 2011
Grants.gov webcast — now 2/2/11 at 1pm
Head on over to http://videocast.nih.gov at 1pm on February 2nd to join the Grants.gov Stakeholder Webcast. Looks like an interesting agenda:
Introduction – Webcast Participants
Grant.gov Status Update
Grants.gov/Grantsolution Partnership
Grantsolution Services
Grants.gov/COE Discussion
Grants.gov Support
Q&A – Questions from…