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May 4, 2009
Federal grants management systems landscape
Last week I gave the presentation below at the Compusearch PRISM Educational Conference. On the panel with me were Katie Hermosilla (Booz Allen Hamilton) and Chae Shim and Tracy Mosson (Compusearch). Katie talked about the policy side of the grants management…
April 29, 2009
Grants.gov gets applause for recent build
Monday was the deadline for a large grant opportunity, and Grants.gov performed very well! Whatever measures the team has taken seems to have really helped. As one submitter from a university wrote on the Grants.gov system-to-system mailing list:
“Like most folks, we…
April 28, 2009
GDIT gets Grants.gov sole source contract extension
Grants.gov has determined (through a very rigorous process) that only General Dynamics IT, their current contractor, can help them through this frantic period of activity and meet the goals of the Recovery Act, and has awarded them a contract extension, as this…
April 17, 2009
Interview with NITRC project manager on FederalNewsRadio
Following up from NITRC’s Excellence.Gov Award win earlier this week, FederalNewsRadio has posted an article and audio story, including an interview with Nina Preuss, TCG’s NITRC project manager.
Nina is quite right: We didn’t expect NITRC to win this award…
April 15, 2009
Presentation of NITRC’s Excellence.gov Award
We took a little video of (some of) the NITRC team accepting their Excellence.gov Award yesterday. Included in the video are James Luo, Nina Preuss, David Kennedy, Christian Haselgrove, and Dan Turner. Shoddy camerawork is by me (for which I apologize!).…
April 14, 2009
NITRC projects wins Excellence.Gov Award!
I have some very exciting news: One of our projects has won the overall, top 2009 Excellence.Gov Award! The NIH’s Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) project was recognized for its achievements in helping researchers collaborate to develop even…
April 10, 2009
FederalNewsRadio story on latest Grants.gov memo
Jason Miller of FederalNewsRadio has more details about the memo OMB released yesterday (with some quotes from OMB’s Tom Gavin, yours truly, and Mark Ace of Cayuse). Text story, audio story. Apparently OMB expects four agencies — Education, DHS, Justice,…
April 9, 2009
OMB directs agencies to pay for Grants.gov improvements
OMB released a new memo last night, directing agencies to provide past-due and new funds to support the improvement of Grants.gov. Attachment A of the memo shows that OMB expects agencies to send over $12 million to Grants.gov by April 13th, $6…
April 7, 2009
A Fun Little Math Problem in System Optimization
Recently, a company with whom we work had a Web site that wasn’t as fast as they wanted. So they ran a series of tests using Apache’s benchmarking tool:
Running a simple “Hello World” page: 500 pages/second
“Hello World” plus turning on “feature A”:…
April 3, 2009
Grants.gov schedules webcast for April 15
The next Grants.gov webcast will be on April 15 at 1pm EDT. No registration is required. Just click here at 1pm on April 15th! Here’s the agenda:
Introduction
Grants.gov Quarterly Update
Grants.gov and the Recovery Act
Grants.gov Recently Accomplished System…