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July 27, 2005
VoIP and telework
The government’s been trying to get more people to work remotely for many years now, with legislation that mandates agencies to enable more staff to adopt this mode of working and prevents government contractors being penalized for the use of…
July 25, 2005
Forecastfox
I started using Forecastfox some time ago and absolutely love it. It’s a little Firefox extension that shows the current and forecast weather conditions wherever you wish in the browser. Until the latest version, the weather data came from Weather.com but…
IBM acquiring PureEdge
Woah! Government Technology reports that IBM is buying PureEdge, the producer of the e‑forms software that’s used by Grants.gov,
among many others. I think this has been in the works for a while now,
given that PureEdge seems to have obtained quite…
July 22, 2005
IT governance and efficiency
Somehow or other, I ended up reading this article on Nicholas Car’s blog about governance of IT purchasing in organizations. It highlights an important point: the governance structure should be focused on the objectives of the business, not as a means to…
Law enforcement IT standards
Another heads-up from Alice Marshall: DOJ is sponsoring an effort to develop law enforcement IT standards, called the LEITSC (Law Enforcement Information Technology Standards Council). With so much money at the levels of law enforcement closest to the feds, and…
EmergingTechnology.gov
Via a newly-found friend, Alice Marshall of the Presto Vivace Blog and GCN, I see that NIST has launched a new site, ET.gov, to help increase adoption of reusable components. I was wondering when something like this would crop up. CORE.gov is limited to…
July 18, 2005
Accelerating Grants Streamlining — NGP paper #1 released!
The first NGP White Paper, Accelerating Grants Streamlining: Furthering the Recommendations of GAO’s Grants Streamlining Report,
was released a few hours ago. I’m the co-chair of the NGP White Paper
Series Committee and the team did a really fantastic job in putting…
July 14, 2005
NGP White Paper #1 — phew!
So after a flurry of activity, I think the NGP’s first white paper, Accelerating Grants Streamlining, is pretty much done! I wrote about it before on the blog, and will post the final paper here too once I have permission to do so. We’ve…
July 6, 2005
Google! — grants and open source
I spotted this post on Slashdot about some old Google pages that are available on WayBackMachine.com, which is an archive of Internet sites and web pages. One of the pages in the archive is the old About Google! page, and…
NasBackup and the amazing Butch
TCG has a bunch of staff spread across the country. This presents a number of technical challenges for data security and corporate data integrity. We’ve put in place measures such as our VPN, which has created an internal “LAN” that’s proving very…