Author: Pete Sinnott
September 20, 2007
FDP starts government grantor systems wiki
FDP’s inimitable Ron Splittgerber of Colorado State has taken it upon himself to start a wiki that will document agency grant systems, interfaces, forms, and a host of other great information. The prototype is up here and will be based on data…
Brain Storming Web 2.0 at NIH
Via the ever-wonderful BCIG mailing list I got notice of this very interesting Web 2.0 initiative at NIH, which is exploring the application of those technologies at that revered (around here, anyway) agency. There’s an open discussion session being held on…
September 11, 2007
FDP: Grants.gov Update
Terry Nicolosi provided an update on the Grants.gov system. She was joined by Harsha Rao, Gary Alfano (both from General Dynamics), Doug Privelege (from Adobe), and Vince Sprouls. Lots of interesting information here, including the fact that IBM Workplace Forms…
September 10, 2007
FDP: FFATA SF-424 Forms Update
Jean Feldman talked about how the SF-424 needs to change to help FFATA compliance. Jean leads the SF424 Forms Families & FFATA Implementation Subcommittee. More after the link……
FDP: FFATA Update
I joined the session on FFATA a little late (Brad Stanford’s fault, honest!) but arrived just in time to see Gil Tran of OMB slay the crowd and take the title of Humorous Government Person at the FDP Meeting from Jean Feldman.…
The unsaid reason why agencies resist GMLOB
Last week and today I’ve been having interested chats with various people about GMLOB and attempts to consolidate grants management operations. One key point has emerged from these discussions and I thought it might be useful to describe it here.
The problem…
FDP: GMOB Profiles
All three of the GMLOB consortia (NSF, Education, and HHS/ACF) gave an overview of their offerings today. Notes follow the jump……
Government heads for Second Life
Just picked up this post from Bob Brewin from GovExec.
That’s the goal of key staffers at the Information Resources Management College at the National Defense University, which has a formed a multiagency consortium to establish a sizeable federal presence in the Second…
FDP: Agency Updates
I’m at the Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) meeting today and will be posting some brief notes throughout the day, courtesy of the free wi-fi here at the wonderful National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.
There were updates from NSF,…
September 6, 2007
More details on new GMLOB direction
Following up Friday’s OMB e‑mail that requires agencies to designate a GMLOB consortia lead by December 31, the Grants Executive Board today held a meeting that offered a few more details about the policy, exceptions, and other matters. The following notes are based…