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November 13, 2008
GMLOB on Presidential transition radar
I just saw this page from the GAO’s Presidential transition site, which includes the following:
In 2005, GAO recommended that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget ensure that efforts to develop common grant-reporting systems, such as through this…
November 11, 2008
Lines of Business: OMB’s Mistakes and How It Can Fix Them
Here is the fundamental challenge: Each new grant program passed by Congress creates a tiny new fiefdom in a government agency. This fiefdom directly gets funding and has the ability in many cases to set up its own management processes and systems.…
November 4, 2008
A Script to Automatically Update Clamav Packages
Clamav is an excellent open source multi-platform antivirus program that we use on our systems and projects. While clamav comes with utilities to update the antivirus definitions, there isn’t a utility to update the engine (instead the antivirus update gives a warning).…
October 15, 2008
Grants.gov Newsletter Fall 2008 now available
It’s here! The major headline is that Grants.gov has passed the 200,000 application mark for FY2008. Quite an achievement!…
GPC Webcast: October 28th, 2pm‑3.30pm
Jason Miller of Federal News Radio alerted me to this notice. Attendance in person is limited to 50 people but the webcast is open to all-comers. See the Grants Management Events Calendar for more details (iCal, HTML). According to the…
October 10, 2008
Two events you should know about
I just added these to the Grants Management Events Calendar (remember to subscribe!):
Grants.gov Stakeholders Webcast
http://www.hhs.gov/grants/webcast/index.html
Please join us for the next Grants.gov Stakeholder Webcast on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EDT. This meeting will…
September 23, 2008
100% of TCG Project Managers Now PMP Certified
TCG achieved yet another milestone this week: every single one of our project managers is now Project Management Professional (PMP) certified by the Project Management Institute. Nina Preuss crossed the line (in a good way) — good job, Nina! You can…
September 17, 2008
Transparency Act RFI
Well this one slipped me by! At yesterday’s NGP meeting, it was announced that OMB has issued an RFI regarding implementation of the subaward reporting component of the Transparency Act. The RFI is here. I’m still digesting it but wanted…
September 15, 2008
Grants.gov opportunity e‑mails to end
Take note! Grants.gov will be terminating its opportunity notification e‑mails very soon. Everyone should shift to using the Grants.gov RSS feeds.…
September 12, 2008
Coburn unhappy with currency of USAspending.gov data
As reported on NextGov yesterday, Senator Tom Coburn, one of the original sponsors of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (aka “FFATA”) is unhappy about the timeliness of some agencies’ data in USAspending.gov. As Robert Shea, the OMB executive…