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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…
November 27, 2006
Excellence.Gov Awards — nominations close 12/4/06
Just a quick reminder to nominate your projects for a 2007 Excellence.Gov Award! Nominations close on December 4 (that’s this Friday) so time is getting short. These awards highlight the very best government IT projects, culminating in an annual award ceremony and…
July 7, 2008
Transparency Act Subaward Pilot Conference Call, July 9, 2–4pm
I just got back from vacation and found this notice in my e‑mail. Join the call if you’re participating in the Subaward Pilot project through the NGP! Details:
Phone: 888–282-8353
Passcode: 69195
In Person: US Dept of Education, 550 12th Street…
August 2, 2006
PMA scores improve for e‑gov
GovExec reports today that agencies are generally improving their e‑gov scores against the President’s Management Agenda. The scorecard shows that:
For progress of implementation:
Interior, Justice, DOT, VA, SBA, and SSA are all scored red (“unsatisfactory”)
Defense, EPA, DHS, Treasury, Corps…
August 4, 2005
DefCon: Web Service Intrusion — Same Security Holes, New Technology
At DefCon 13, Alex Stamos of iSec Partners gave a very interesting talk entitled “Attacking Web Services”. In summary, there are currently three known web service attack techniques:
Injecting XML into an input box, overwriting tags set earlier in the SOAP…
July 18, 2008
Zimbra: Getting Away Messages to Work With Domain Alises
While most of our mail is simply sent to “person@tcg.com”, our Zimbra server has a larger qualified domain name (let’s call it “mail.tcg.com”). To get this to work, we completely configured up the domain “mail.tcg.com” and all the users within our…
September 25, 2007
New technology transfer resource
Sharon McLoone’s Small Business blog pointed out a great resource for entrepreneurs looking for new innovations to take to market: the
iBridge Network. This is
“an online searchable database with the latest news in research, technologies and findings at U.S. universities. The…
January 15, 2014
Guidance on Uniform Guidance: Learning What’s in the Supercircular
If you are involved in grants or grantmaking in any capacity, you know that the Office of Management and Budget has attempted to bring together all those pesky federal regulations, rules, advisories, and guidance notices; standardize them; and publish them in…
August 2, 2018
Supporting STEM Education for Girls and Minorities
After announcing the annual theme at the 2018 All-hands Meeting, TCGers kicked off our first activities to support STEM education for girls and minorities.
The first activity TCGers participated in at the All-hands Meeting was creating Makey Makey inventions with…
January 21, 2010
GSA setting up “Grants Management” schedule
GSA is setting up a new “Grants Management” SIN (Special Item Number) on their Financial and Business Solutions (FABS) Schedule, a GSA contract through which Federal agencies can buy services. An industry day is being held tomorrow. Registration info is here. The…