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September 19, 2006
Keane wins DOJ COPS grants management deal (with TCG’s help)
Our prime contractor, Keane, announced today that our team has won a contract to provide IT support the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Service. TCG and Apptis are both subcontractors on the deal. Speaking for TCG, we’re very happy to…
December 25, 2013
One More Present to Open: New (Simplified) Rules on Federal Grants
OMB's new grants rules published December 26.
September 27, 2011
Dissecting a JavaScript CSS Browser Selector
If you are a web developer and have not seen Rafael Lima’s CSS Browser Selector yet, you should check it out. It is a 1K JavaScript file that lets you easily add CSS to your web page for specific browsers, operating systems,…
October 14, 2009
NGP meeting / webcast — October 20th
These are exciting times for the National Grants Partnership! A big announcement will be made by Tom Cooley of the GPC and the NGP co-chairs on October 20th, at the next meeting and webcast, so be sure to join us there.
As…
September 6, 2011
Invitations From the Captain Can Not Be Declined
For as long as I can remember, I’ve enjoyed reading. As I’ve aged the kinds of books that I find interesting have been expanding. Historical fiction never interested me as a youth, but as an adult I found a number of authors in this genre…
December 18, 2013
Finalists Announced for the 2013 SAVE Awards–Cast Your Vote Today!
OMB and the White House have announced the four finalists for this year’s Securing Americans Value and Efficiency (SAVE) awards. Award nominations, which promote ideas to improve government efficiency and save taxpayers’ money, are submitted by Federal employees. Anyone can…
January 2, 2007
E‑Gov performance measures
OMB released performance metrics for all of the e‑gov initiatives last month, including Grants.gov. Accurate measurement of program performance has been a missing component of government IT for many years. In judging the Excellence.Gov Awards, a common criticism is that nominations fail…
November 22, 2005
DOD launches e‑health records system
The military yet again leads the way in innovative technology implementations: GovExec reports that DOD has launched AHLTA, its electronic health record system, and that it was built using mostly off-the-shelf products. Does anyone know what the architecture of this…
November 10, 2011
Best, or at Least Better, Practices for Ajax Enabled Forms Using JQuery
For an internal project I am working on at the NIH we decided to make a nice Ajax enabled user edit form. It’s quite simple. When you first view the page there is a drop down box where you can select users. When…
September 10, 2007
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…