August 31, 2006

Dreaming of an English-Based Object Oriented Language

MIT’s media lab has created “Metaphor”, a facinating tool that parses standard English into a programmatic pseudo-code.  Take a look at: http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2005/032305/Tool_turns_English_to_code_032305.html.  Metaphor seems very cool, but to deal with the ambiguities of its English parser, it ends up with non-working pseudo-code.  They…
May 24, 2011

Announcing AABPA’s Summer Intern Program

AABPA is pleased to announce that it is once again offering a specialized education program for summer interns who are interested in pursuing a career in budgeting or program analysis. The program will be held Thursday, July 7, 2011 at George Washington…
July 19, 2023

Changes to Atlassian Licensing Could Impact Service. Is Your Federal Agency Prepared?

By Brendan O’Meara, TCG Atlassian Capability Lead Atlassian software provides the foundation for Agile project management, data collection, and knowledge sharing for many Federal agencies. On February 15, 2024, agencies will find themselves without critical Atlassian support for Jira, Confluence,…
June 23, 2010

TCG Receives 2010 Commuter Connections Telework Award

TCG has been named by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments and its Commuter Connections® program as the winner of its Telework category award under the 2010 Commuter Connections Employer Recognition Awards. TCG was presented with the award at the…
September 4, 2008

Grants.gov starts new blog

It looks like good ideas spread! Grants.gov has started its own blog all about grants management. Check it out here.…
March 28, 2008

Updated FFATA Subaward Pilot meeting information

More details on the FFATA Subaward Pilot project have been announced. The original announcement is here. Apparently the pilot project is scheduled to start June 23 and end August 23, 2008. If you are interested in participating, join the meeting…
February 9, 2010

NGMA webcast moved to 2/17/10 (confirmed)

This is still in flux a little but the NGMA webcast scheduled for tomorrow (February 10th) is tentatively rescheduled to February 17th. NGMA will confirm this soon, I’m sure. Update 2/9/10 14:52: The rescheduled meeting is now confirmed for 2/17/10. All existing…
August 1, 2008

Subaward Pilot IT solution identified

I just posted this over at the NGP blog and thought others may like to know about it.  An alert NGP member recently forward the following e‑mail from Robert Shea of OMB to the NGP mailing list. It shows that the HHS…
July 26, 2006

Implementing a federal funds awards database

I neglected to follow up my post about S.2590 so I’m going to fix that now. The big question about this and H.R.5060, which both propose the establishment of an online database of federal funding awards, is how such a database can…
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…