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September 22, 2006
Grants.gov moving host
More details have emerged about Anteon/General Dynamics’ plans for Grants.gov, namely that hosting will be done by Carpathia, an Ashburn, VA, provider that has worked with Anteon in the past.
I’d expressed doubts about the budgetary feasibility of the Anteon/GD bid…
November 30, 2005
Silly SaaS
In his weekly InfoWorld column this week, Ephraim Schwartz invokes yet another acronym — SaaS, or Software as a Service. He discusses how products modeled after Salesforce.com are moving beyond the salesforce to invade other parts of the enterprise. But this…
September 22, 2006
NIH bill establishes electronic coding and reporting requirements
A new bill is on its way to reauthorize the NIH for a few years, reports GovExec, and includes provisions to establish an electronic scientific coding system and requirements for reporting patents resulting from NIH grant funding. It also allows for…
October 8, 2014
Grants Reporting Stymied by Lack of Grants Reporting
How can agencies use data they already collect to meet OMB reporting requirements if they aren't collecting it because OMB's requirements aren't clear? Chicken, meet egg.
November 8, 2006
OMB says “Turn off duplicative systems…or else”
Jason Miller posted an enlightening article, reporting on Karen Evans’ intention to have agencies turn off duplicative systems. In past years, funding for IT that duplicated functionality in government-wide systems (e.g. Grants.gov’s find and apply) was cut. Now, though, OMB…
May 6, 2008
NIH procuring grants systems engineering help
One of the larger, if not the largest, grants management system in government is run by the NIH. It’s called the Electronic Research Administration (eRA…yes, with a small ‘e’) and you can read all about it here. NIH is currently recompeting…
July 12, 2023
Open-Source Supply Chain Security: Addressing a Key Challenge
By Robert Bruce, Deputy CTO
In January 2022, the developer behind two immensely popular open-source NPM packages — “colors” and “faker” — intentionally disrupted them, citing overwhelming workload. The ripple effects were felt far and wide, causing thousands of projects…
July 25, 2009
Grants.gov GAO report news links
GAO’s recent report about Grants.gov has garnered a lot of coverage across the web and in print. Here are some of the links I’ve been following:
Senators, GAO Criticize Grants.gov [National Journal]
GAO: Grants.gov has serious weaknesses [Federal Computer Week]
GAO:…
September 28, 2009
Interior chooses PRISM-Grants
I see today that the Department of the Interior has selected Compusearch’s PRISM-Grants product for their end-to-end grant lifecycle. From the Compusearch press release:
“At the conclusion of a comprehensive analysis of all of the available options, one of which was…
March 20, 2012
Upgrading to MySQL 5.5 on Ubuntu 10.10
I was recently asked to upgrade the MySQL install on a Ubuntu 10.10 system. Normally these kinds of upgrades are simple affairs using built in tools like apt or yum, but in this case I was trying to go from MySQL 5.1…