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November 13, 2008
GMLOB on Presidential transition radar
I just saw this page from the GAO’s Presidential transition site, which includes the following:
In 2005, GAO recommended that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget ensure that efforts to develop common grant-reporting systems, such as through this…
April 28, 2010
Grants.gov — back to normal
I just returned from a little vacation to find this announcement [M‑10–16] from OMB regarding Grants.gov, confirming what many already understood: agencies are instructed to resume using Grants.gov’s “Apply” functionality for all grant programs that are eligible.
This is not a surprise…
January 12, 2006
“You’ve got a grant!” phishing
A Tennessee woman has been the victim of a phishing scam in which she was told she’d won a government grant. Apparently she had applied for an SBA grant through Grants.gov and then received an e‑mail, evidently from another source, congratulating her…
June 2, 2009
More on Asterisk and IntuitiveVoice Evolution
Want to change the conference line access number in Asterisk/Intuitive Voice Evolution? It’s not all that easy if you don’t want the conference line to be something not in the 14000–15000 range.
We like to have a nice long conference line…
May 15, 2008
Reducing Spam Blowback Bounce Messages in Zimbra
With our company’s move to the Zimbra mail server finally complete (and working very well), we noticed an sudden increase of a particular type of spam: fake bounce or mail server error messages. This was surprising since our old mail and…
January 13, 2006
MySQL now on GSA Schedule
[Via Slashdot] Government buyers can now get MySQL on a GSA Schedule. Is this the first time this has happened, though? A quick look at the GSA Advantage site yields at least one or two results for MySQL database license vendors. Besides…
April 17, 2009
Interview with NITRC project manager on FederalNewsRadio
Following up from NITRC’s Excellence.Gov Award win earlier this week, FederalNewsRadio has posted an article and audio story, including an interview with Nina Preuss, TCG’s NITRC project manager.
Nina is quite right: We didn’t expect NITRC to win this award…
March 24, 2009
Grants.gov gets new leadership
Grants.gov has a new program manager to guide it through the challenges of servicing the Recovery Act. Phillip Clark, a member of the HHS Office of the Chief Information Officer, will be Acting Program Manager as Eben Trevino moves to become Senior…
September 30, 2005
Amendment could hurt small businesses
(Via VAR Business) There is currently a proposed DOD pricing amendment that will require prime contractors engaged in time and materials contracts with federal agencies to pass through subcontractor rates for firms added to a program after contract award. Unfortunately this will…
September 5, 2008
NGP September 16th agenda/registration now available
Click here to see the agenda for the NGP’s September 16th meeting and webcast. Registration details are also on this page. Topics up for discussion include:
Transition and Reauthorization of PL 106–107
Transparency Act & Subaward Pilot Update
The Partnership for…