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October 14, 2010
Treasury Awards Emergency Programs Support Contract to TCG
The United States Department of the Treasury has awarded TCG a contract to provide mission-critical support services for its Office of Emergency Programs (OEP). TCG and its key subcontracting partner for this task, Corner Alliance, will provide strategic planning and program…
September 18, 2006
S.2590 — $100k or $5 million? You decide
S.2590 continues to make waves, with passage into law last week. GovExec has a report on this which includes comments from “An industry expert who requested anonymity expressed reservations about the new search tool.” Those comments seem to be remarkably well-informed…
September 25, 2007
New technology transfer resource
Sharon McLoone’s Small Business blog pointed out a great resource for entrepreneurs looking for new innovations to take to market: the
iBridge Network. This is
“an online searchable database with the latest news in research, technologies and findings at U.S. universities. The…
July 19, 2007
Grants.gov Webcast 7/19/2007
I missed the first 30 minutes of the webcast due to a conflicting meeting. Here are the notes I took from 30 minutes in.
[UPDATE: The slide presentation, including the bits that I missed, is available here.]…
October 5, 2006
Complete this survey!
Are you a grantee? Use a grants system? You should complete this survey. (Full disclosure: I’m the Co-Chair of this committee!)
If you haven’t already responded to the National Grants Partnership survey regarding the use of standards in grants management and administration,…
June 25, 2007
FFATA presentation now online
Received from Cornelia Chebinou of NASACT, via The NGP:
A copy of the presentation on the Federal Financial Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) given by Tom Cooley, Chair of the Grants Policy Committee, and presented during the recent Grants Policy Committee…
August 1, 2006
2006 International Enterprise Architecture Survey
John Gøtze highlights a fascinating and comprehensive survey of enterprise architecture implementations and utilization in governments worldwide. Some of the conclusions aren’t surprising (limited realization of EA goals, little calculation of benefits versus costs, etc.) but it’s encouraging to see such…
January 12, 2010
GPC asking for feedback on grant receipt timeliness
In the Federal Register last week, the GPC issues this notice, which “announces an outreach effort for feedback on, topical items that impact individuals/organizations’ ability to submit , grant applications in a timely fashion.” Anyone can submit comments up to the…
May 14, 2013
They’re Here to Help
Site visits are for grantees, not federal agencies, says National Science Foundation officials.
Last week at the National Grants Management Association Annual Meeting a session on virtual site visits — using shared desktops, conference lines, and videoconferencing — had an underlying…
March 20, 2009
CGI and Grantium team for hosted ARRA grants management solution
This release just crossed the wires and I thought it would be of interest to a few readers. Seems like CGI Federal and Grantium have teamed up to provide a hosted grants management solution focused on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grants.…