July 15, 2011

National Grants Partnership Announcements

The National Grants Partnership (NGP) has posted several announcements on its blog: A recording of the July 13 webinar with the most up-to-date information on potential changes to federal grants reporting as envisioned in a recent Presidential Executive Order and Congressional…

Grants.gov Announces Stakeholder Webcast

Grants.gov has announced that its next Stakeholder Webcast will be held on Wednesday, July 20, 2011 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET. This meeting will be a webcast only and registration is NOT required. The program agenda is as follows: …
July 6, 2011

AGA Call for Volunteers: Candidate Assessment Tool for Grants Managers

The Association of Government Accountants  (AGA) is launching a new project to help identify accomplished grants managers. AGA just issued a call for volunteers to develop a “Candidate Assessment Tool” for use by managers at all levels of government in screening candidates…

GPA Announces 13th Annual Conference and Expo

The Grants Professionals Association (GPA) has announced that the 13th Annual GPA Conference & Expo and CharityChannel Summit will be held at the Bally’s Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, October 5–8, 2011. This event, which will feature 50 plus workshops for…

Emergency Recovery of Zimbra’s OpenLDAP

Last weekend (July 3rd, 2011), Washington had a tremendous thunderstorm, which led to a long power outage.  We have a number of experimental and development virtual machines in our local server farm that were impacted, but what was truly hit hard was an…
July 5, 2011

FDP registration for September 2011 now open

The Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) has opened registration for their September 14–16 meeting. Go to this page to register. The agenda is still being finalized but the FDP meetings are always full of great content for research administrators and government…
June 20, 2011

Test in Peoria, Test in Düsseldorf , Test in 東京

Have you ever had someone mispronounce your name?  It doesn’t happen to me often because I have a simple enough name, but it does bug me when it happens.  Names don’t always follow the normal pronunciation rules so it’s not really the…
June 15, 2011

NITRC Passes Milestone

NITRC–the Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse–recently passed the 3,000 registered users level and now has 383 registered tools available for users. TCG built and operates NITRC for NIH. Under this contract, TCG established a web-based clearinghouse for neuroimaging analysis tools,…
June 13, 2011

All your Federal reporting are belong to us

Wow! Well, it looks like government reporting may be changing significantly if Rep. Darrell Issa’s proposed new DATA Act legislation is passed (summary here). This act will consolidate the tracking and reporting of all Federal spending, on contracts, grants, loans,…
June 3, 2011

Give a Hoot — Don’t Commute!

Our company purpose is to “Save Time.“This is best embodied by our animosity towards daily commutes. The concept is a terrible one — it leads to communities where people don’t know each other, where businesses fail even though they’re surrounded by…