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May 31, 2010
FDP releases slide decks from May meeting
The FDP has made available all of the presentations from its meeting earlier in May. You can grab the whole lot here: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/fdp/PGA_057092. They include updates from NIH, NSF, Research.gov, ARO, AFOSR, among many others.…
November 11, 2008
Lines of Business: OMB’s Mistakes and How It Can Fix Them
Here is the fundamental challenge: Each new grant program passed by Congress creates a tiny new fiefdom in a government agency. This fiefdom directly gets funding and has the ability in many cases to set up its own management processes and systems.…
March 14, 2007
Tech Work from Home: A Survival Guide
Eric Spiegel is a fellow work-from-home type who founded a great company, XTS, which provides software for planning, managing and auditing Citrix and other virtualization platforms. He also writes a regular column for IT Management, the latest of which is all about the…
December 12, 2007
TCG Alum is famous!
We’ve had getting-up-towards 200 employees over the years. Many left when the company had hard times, some left because they found other work or had kids, we even lost two to Amazon and one to Microsoft. (Amazingly, our voluntary turnover…
May 15, 2008
FDP: Grants.gov Update
The new Grants.gov PMO discussed the status of the system. Eben Trebino introduced the session:
Working with a system built 3 years ago that’s handling four times more capacity than it was designed to manage. Now approaching 130,000 applications being submitted through…
April 25, 2007
Havekost is Austria-bound
I think this ranks among one of the less-expected stories of the week!
Charles Havekost announced Monday that he will be leaving his position as chief information officer at the Department of Health and Human Services in mid-June and moving with…
January 14, 2007
Grantsfire — grant announcements for the rest of the world
The guys over at Solpath have released a test version of a new project called Granstsfire, which they describe as
an aggregator of syndicated grants information. It enables grantseekers and funders to share and search for information on grant announcements in real…
September 3, 2007
OMB on GMLOB: “Align with one the three Consortia Leads. There’ll be no more”
On Friday OMB made a significant announcement about the GMLOB to the CIO Council mailing list:
In the FY07 President’s Budget, OMB designated three agencies as consortia leads for the Grants Management Line of Business (GM LoB): the Department of Education,…
August 18, 2011
Estimation Is a Loser’s Game
How many times a day do you estimate the time and effort required to complete a project? I bet it is a lot more than you think. Did you recently adjust your alarm clock? Before you did that I expect that you, perhaps subconsciously, did…
December 12, 2007
Grants.gov posts Adobe tutorial
Just got this from the Grants.gov mailing list. Good to see these things appearing!
We continue to update the Grants.gov site to reflect the transition from PureEdge to Adobe. You may want to take a few minutes to view our new…