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November 13, 2008
NGP meeting/webcast on Tuesday!
One week, two major grants management meetings. Phewy!
The NGP is holding its bi-monthly meeting on Tuesday from 1.30pm‑3.00pm at the Department of Education in Washington, DC. Here’s the agenda. E‑mail TheNGP@AOL.com by noon on November 17th to register. You…
November 23, 2005
Maps on your Treo or Blackberry
I saw yesterday (yes, I’m behind the curve on this one!) that Google is beta-testing a version of Google Maps for mobile devices. I have a Treo 650 and, while it’s not one of the officially-supported devices, you can install it if you…
July 21, 2006
Senate debates S.2590
GovExec has a good summary of the debate about S.2590, which aims to create a database of federal grants and contracts. (H.R.5060 is focused only on grants.) I’ll post more about this subject later. Gotta run to a meeting right now!…
March 3, 2009
UK government strongly advocates open source
This is truly fantastic. The UK government has decided that, where there is little price difference between open source and commercial products, open source should be selected due to its inherent flexibility. The initiative is also promoting re-use of product…
September 28, 2006
Franchise funds and the GMLOB
We’ve been doing some research into the business models that are driving the various Lines of Business initiatives, and recently compiled some information about Federal franchise funds that we thought might be good to share.
“Franchise funds” is a 1994 program that…
June 21, 2012
Automatic recursive commits in CVS for large source trees
TCG has a number of long running projects. Some of them are still using the CVS revision control system because it is working well for our particular use case and the scope of the project doesn’t justify the cost in moving…
January 29, 2008
Grants.gov now REQUIRES Adobe Reader 8.1.1
This is a very important announcement regarding compatibility of various versions of Adobe Reader with Grants.gov. Please take note!
Important Software Version Announcement: Adobe Reader 8.1.1 Required
When applying with Adobe Reader applications on Grants.gov, it is now required to download Adobe…
April 9, 2009
OMB directs agencies to pay for Grants.gov improvements
OMB released a new memo last night, directing agencies to provide past-due and new funds to support the improvement of Grants.gov. Attachment A of the memo shows that OMB expects agencies to send over $12 million to Grants.gov by April 13th, $6…
January 27, 2006
Performance-based contracting not a panacea
GovExec has a nice article about an AFCEA event at which Ed Meagher, CTO at the VA, and others give a reality check about the limits of performance-based contracting and earned value management. I especially like this quote:
“Earned value … is like being…
February 24, 2006
Congressman Wu: “Federal Dollars Should Benefit The Whole, Not Just Majority” — (Medford Article)
I see that Oregon Congressman David Wu has sent a letter has sent a letter about Grants.gov’s Mac compatibility issue to Joshua Bolten, Director of OMB:
I am personally troubled by the overarching discrimination against Mac-users simply because they are considered the minority.…