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January 16, 2009
Nominated OMB Director says USAspendin needs improvement
USASpending is clearly at the forefront of the mind of Peter Orszag, the nominee to lead OMB under the new administration:
Dipping into the weeds of acquisition reform, he said the government should develop a more unified definition of inherently governmental…
February 5, 2008
9 GMLOB MOUs signed; others appealing
The inimitable Jason Miller at Washington Technology reports that:
The policy guidance [issued by OMB as passback language to agencies alongside the FY09 budget request also addressed the Grants Management Line of Business. Agencies were to have chosen one of…
July 13, 2012
GAO Report Dumps Grants Overlaps in Wrong Lap
The GAO Report released this week that looked at overlap in Department of Justice grants programs found an alarming number of overlapping programs and, not surprisingly, grants applications that repeated the same language for programs at different DOJ agencies.
“DOJ…
December 1, 2005
NASA ditches IE in favor of Firefox
A little birdie told me today that NASA has given up entirely on Internet Explorer. Now, if you are an employee of NASA, every time you go to a page using IE, you get up to three prompts telling you how…
August 10, 2005
HHS multi-agency systems
Charles Havekost, HHS CIO, was a speaker at an IAC-sponsored lunch yesterday, which I attended, and he spoke a little about a HHS system that services multiple agencies for their ata-collection approval process. This isn’t the only example of such a multi-agency system at HHS:…
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…
November 22, 2005
DOJ IG Lists Grant Management as Top Management Challenge
The Department of Justice’s Inspector General has included Grants Management on its list of Top Management Challenges in the Department of Justice. Several audits have found some grant administration difficulties in Justice’s handling of the $3.5 billion appropriated to Department…
September 29, 2009
OMB mandating Grants.gov again?
I was unable to attend the FDP meeting last week but colleagues tell me that some mention was made of OMB’s plan to once again mandate agency use of Grants.gov for all incoming grant applications.
OMB allowed agencies to use…
May 22, 2013
TCG Wins Place on Inner City 100 for Fourth Year Running
TCG has been named by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and Fortune Magazine as one of
the 100 fastest-growing inner city companies in the United States for the fourth year in a row. TCG ranked 46th on the 2013 list. The…
October 3, 2006
Commentary on S.2590 in Information Today
Information Today has a good article on the history and future of S.2590, the database of the federal grants and contracts. The author notes that,
The database will only be as good as the data included in it. The current data collection…