May 27, 2008

New Federal Grants System to Eliminate Confusion, Bureaucracy For State and Locals

While doing some research on an entirely unrelated topic, I happened upon this article from 1998: New Federal Grants System to Eliminate Confusion, Bureaucracy For State and Locals. It profiles the U.S. Electronic Grants System (EGS), a forerunner to the Federal Commons…
May 19, 2008

SF424 form changes in Federal Register

The changes to the SF424 form set have been posted to the Federal Register. You can review them here: SF424 R&R — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10797.htm SF424 Mandatory — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10796.htm SF424 A — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10798.htm SF424 B — http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10795.htm SF424 C –http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-10794.htm SF424 D…
May 15, 2008

FDP: Update on GMLOB (Take 2!)

This was the second session about GMLOB, and while the majority of the time in this session was spent looking at NSF’s Research.gov, it also included representatives from Education and NIH.…

FDP: Good restaurants near the Fair Lakes Hyatt

This is the first time that the FDP meeting has been held in this part of the world. I live quite close to this location, so I thought a quick list of good local restaurants may be useful! So here it is, in…

FDP: GMLOB Update

Erika Rissi and Stacy Boyd spoke about the new GMLOB strategic landscape. Some interesting developments here, including the new GMLOB Strategic Landscape.…

FDP: Grants.gov Update

The new Grants.gov PMO discussed the status of the system. Eben Trebino introduced the session: Working with a system built 3 years ago that’s handling four times more capacity than it was designed to manage. Now approaching 130,000 applications being submitted through…

FDP: Agency Updates

Turns out that there is no wifi access in the main meeting room at the FDP meeting, so I’ll be taking notes and posting them as soon as I reach an access point. The first session provided updates from many Federal…
May 14, 2008

And I’ll be blogging from the FDP meeting

I should have noted that I’ll be blogging from the FDP meeting tomorrow, as long as there’s a wifi network available. (And there’d better be or the hotel will have a riot on its hands!)…

See you at the FDP meeting tomorrow! Although you may miss me…

I’m going to the FDP meeting tomorrow at the Fair Lakes Hyatt in Fairfax, VA. If you’re there, look for the bespectacled fellow furiously typing on a Macbook. Wait… That describes about a third of the audience. Okay… Look for the bespectacled…
May 8, 2008

Transparency Act Subaward Pilot — updated details

This meeting will be on May 14th, from 2–4pm. The call-in details have been updated. (If you subscribe to the Grants Management Events Calendar you’d already have the updated details in your calendar! Click here to automagically subscribe to the…