July 31, 2006

GCN story on GAO report

This GCN article is a little misleading, making GAO’s report sound like a condemnation of Grants.gov, which it doesn’t appear to be to me. While Grants.gov comes in for some criticism in GAO’s report, it is not the root of all the…
December 22, 2010

FDP registration now open for Jan 24–26 meeting

The Federal Demonstration Partnership is now accepting registrations for the January 24–26 meeting in Washington, DC. You can register right here through January 21st, but be quick! While event registration is usually pretty straight-forward, finding a hotel in DC can be…
November 29, 2021

Improve Data Quality, Save Time, Save Money in the Budget Process with OneStream Software

by Heather Lazo Budget formulation processes in the Federal Government are composed of quantitative data and narrative information that are gathered from across an agency and its bureaus. Issues in the formulation process and in creating and formatting justifications submitted…
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…
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…
April 28, 2008

Grantium conference and news

Grantium’s got a lot on its plate these days! They have just announced their first North American G3 User Conference, to be held at the Hyatt in Bethesda, Maryland, from June 11th to 13th. You can go here to review the…
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.…
May 25, 2011

Are you a project manager with grants management experience?

We’re currently looking for a project manager with extensive grants management experience to join TCG. To find out more, check out the job listing on our web site, and send us your resume. Among other things, the right person will have: Minimum…
November 30, 2011

TCG’s Dr. Robert Buccigrossi Awarded ACM Senior Membership

TCG’s Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Robert “Butch” Buccigrossi, has been awarded the Senior Member Grade by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ACM, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society with over 92,000 members, delivers resources that advance computing…
April 27, 2007

Federal grants management environment (NGMA Conference 2007 material)

I delivered this presentation at the NGMA Conference yesterday, as part of the “Grants Streamlining & Consolidation: Aligning with the GMLOB” session. It describes the major drivers in US Federal grants management. The second part of the session was a presentation by Darren…