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May 31, 2010
FDP releases slide decks from May meeting
The FDP has made available all of the presentations from its meeting earlier in May. You can grab the whole lot here: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/fdp/PGA_057092. They include updates from NIH, NSF, Research.gov, ARO, AFOSR, among many others.…
February 4, 2010
NGP requests Grants.gov improvement suggestions
From our friends at the National Grants Partnership:
The team at Grants.gov is soliciting your input to the below questions concerning the next generation of Grants.gov. We would appreciate if you could provide you thoughts to thengp@aol.com no later than…
April 29, 2019
Spree (n): An Unrestrained Indulgence in or Outburst of an Activity
TCG Sprees had a fast start in 2019. The first event of the year was a Charity Spree at Arlington National Cemetery. TCGers volunteered to help clean up thousands of wreaths that are placed at veterans’ gravestones in mid-December. Six TCGers…
July 11, 2007
Intellipedia — how Intelligence agencies use blogs, wikis, and social software
This is a really interesting presentation about how intelligence agencies use social software (blogs, wikis, tagging, etc.) to get their work done better. It’s really quite fascinating about how they’ve cut facetime and improved productivity. The presenter, Chris Rasmussen (Knowledge Management…
January 13, 2006
MySQL now on GSA Schedule
[Via Slashdot] Government buyers can now get MySQL on a GSA Schedule. Is this the first time this has happened, though? A quick look at the GSA Advantage site yields at least one or two results for MySQL database license vendors. Besides…
April 4, 2007
Transportation, Labor, and VA lead in performance
GovExec reports that the departments of Labor, Transportation, and Veterans Administration lead the way when it comes to transparency, public benefits and leadership evidenced in their performance and accountability reports, according to a report from the Mercatus Center at George Mason…
June 10, 2008
NGP JUne 11th teleconference passcode changed!
Note that the new number is as follows: 800–857-9722 passcode 5168241…
September 28, 2009
Interior chooses PRISM-Grants
I see today that the Department of the Interior has selected Compusearch’s PRISM-Grants product for their end-to-end grant lifecycle. From the Compusearch press release:
“At the conclusion of a comprehensive analysis of all of the available options, one of which was…
May 19, 2011
GAO report on Grants.gov is critical (again)
GAO is charged with monitoring the performance and progress achieved by Grants.gov over its lifetime and its latest report was released earlier this month. The highlights include:
Agencies are being charged by Grants.gov based on their size and not their…
March 31, 2010
FDP May 2010 registration now open
Get your hotel room while you can! Click on this link — http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Agenda.aspx?i=8f9fcf86-4805–4f7a-bab1-2dae2ae4d35c — to register.…