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January 16, 2009

2009 All Hands Meeting

So we’re gonna save the US taxpayer $100 million in 2009. And $1 billion by 2016. No sweat. Well, that’s the plan, at least, as announced by Dan Turner at TCG’s annual All Hands Meeting yesterday! And to make sure we…
August 24, 2007

SF-424 to change for FFATA

Bob Beattie of the University of Michigan asked the Grants.gov S2S mailing list whether data elements on the 424 might change because of the requirements of the FFATA and Kim Deutsch of the NSF responded. I thought this would be of…
August 3, 2007

FFATA needs subaward pilot help

I got this from the NGP a few days ago and just now have time to post it here. If anyone’s interested in helping think through subaward reporting for FATA, contact Tyson Whitney or Barbara Dorf.…
February 11, 2008

Grants.gov compatible with Adobe Reader 8.1.2

Just a tidbit this morning: Grants.gov has announced that they have tested Adobe Reader 8.1.2 with their forms and submission process, and all is well. So feel free to upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader (after checking with your…
July 18, 2006

Grants.gov to use E‑Authentication

GCN reports on Grants.gov’s plans to expand the number of credential providers servicing their user authentication requirements, thereby aligning with the E‑Authentication initiative. User authentication is different to user validation. The latter is simply an exchange of username and password.…
September 9, 2008

Grants.gov seeks cloud computing solution

Grants.gov is seeking information from companies capable of providing a “cloud computing” solution to support its needs, as this sources sought notice shows:  The core business of Grants.gov is: forms (development with business rules, testing, and deployment); the data residing…
January 29, 2007

Annual CTO Forum — 2/7/07, Arlington, VA

I just saw this announcement and thought a few readers may be interested in the topic of data sharing and interoperability.…
February 27, 2023

Zero Trust, NIST Recommendations, and Cloud Freedom

by Robert Buccigrossi The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and National Security Agency released an advisory that warned of a “widespread cyber campaign involving the malicious use of legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) software.” Targeting RMM software (through cracking…
July 18, 2008

Zimbra: Getting Away Messages to Work With Domain Alises

While most of our mail is simply sent to “person@tcg.com”, our Zimbra server has a larger qualified domain name (let’s call it “mail.tcg.com”).  To get this to work, we completely configured up the domain “mail.tcg.com” and all the users within our…
March 10, 2020

Faster OpenVAS Vulnerability Scanning

By Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO OpenVAS is a system vulnerability scanner that checks visible ports, services it can access for known exploits, and high level web threats (like cross-site script vulnerabilities and improper file access). The TCG Tech Team uses it to…