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May 3, 2019
Moving Past Compliance to Getting Real Value From Your TBM Program
The federal Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) policies established in 1996 were a great first step toward understanding and managing IT investments. But just as government’s use of technology has evolved over the past 23 years, so have the policies…
July 9, 2007
Grants.gov reaches major milestone
This news was posted to the Grants.gov technical alerts Web page today. It’s really a wonderful achievement.
Grants.gov Processes 150,000th Federal Grant Application!
Grants.gov has received its 150,000th electronic grant application for fiscal year 2007, far exceeding a program milestone for the…
March 24, 2009
FDP posts draft agenda for May meeting
The FDP has now posted the draft agenda for their May meeting, which includes a panel on how to manage and administer ARRA funds, as well as the usual federal agency updates. I won’t be at this meeting, even though Newport Beach,…
January 15, 2010
1512 Reporting Extended until January 22, 2010
Just got this release via Cornelia Chebinou of the NGP…
Recovery Act Reporting Period Extended until January 22, 2010
WASHINGTON—The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, acting to provide the public with as complete a picture as possible of Recovery Act spending, has decided…
May 29, 2007
HHS launches Pandemic Flu Leadership Blog
HHS has launched a blog to air and discuss issues around pandemic flu!
On June 13, Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is convening a leadership forum on pandemic preparedness, which brings together highly influential leaders from…
April 15, 2009
Presentation of NITRC’s Excellence.gov Award
We took a little video of (some of) the NITRC team accepting their Excellence.gov Award yesterday. Included in the video are James Luo, Nina Preuss, David Kennedy, Christian Haselgrove, and Dan Turner. Shoddy camerawork is by me (for which I apologize!).…
April 20, 2007
FedSpending dinged for publishing SSNs
[Via Slashdot, even though they incorrectly attribute the whole thing to OMB] Uh oh. The New York Times has an article today about FedSpending.org which unbeknownst-to-most included thousands of social security numbers. Apparently the data came from USDA, via Census…
May 21, 2008
Recovering a Slightly Corrupted Zimbra OpenLDAP Directory
Zimbra uses OpenLDAP for its directory, and after way too much fiddling with domains, we ended up corrupting our database. There was a partial “.net” entry in our LDAP that we couldn’t remove. So, we decided to dump the LDAP contents…
October 9, 2014
Swami SmartCEO Peers into Crystal Ball, Sees TCG as Part of DC’s Future 50
While TCG’s sole focus has been on becoming the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be, it’s nice to step back and allow ourselves to be recognized for our work by esteemed magazines.…
April 16, 2008
Shared services = standard services
Rant alert.
Larry Neff is the Deputy CFO at DOT, which runs an FMLOB shared services center. In this FCW article he makes it clear what the mission of these government shared service centers is:
…Neff said, agencies that require…