FCW popped out an interesting report last week: GSA plans to issue an RFP to solicit the private sector to act as a financial management service center, as part of the Financial Management Line of Business (FMLOB). According to Danny Harris,…
I see that HandySoft has released a statement about the Labor department’s use of their BizFlow suite for DOL’s E‑Grants system. Here at TCG, we’re big proponents of business process management software, so it’s encouraging to see a tool like BizFlow being fully…
Stacie Boyd has left her post as an OMB E‑Gov portfolio manager to lead governmentwide grants management initiatives at the National Science Foundation. Tim Young will take over her responsibilities at OMB, which included Disaster Management, E‑Vital, Geospatial One-Stop, Grants.gov…
I see that our friends at Altum have acquired Arlington Group’s Easygrants software! This is a great development for Easygrant users because support was non-existent as a consequence of Arlington Group shutting up shop. Altum’s a great company and their founder, Ken Fang, is…
The Grants.gov PMO held their bi-monthly Stakeholder’s Meeting yesterday and while I couldn’t attend (we’re responding to a large proposal and I’m — how can I put it? — going nuts) I got the notes from a colleague. The presentations should be on the Grants.gov…
They’re already indexing every book on the planet, so why not government data? GovExec reports that Google is trying to open government data to Internet search engines (though I can’t imagine which one they have in mind!) to better enable users…
GovExec has a nice piece about GAO-06–1046, the report I blogged about a while ago. GovExec’s article has a nice summary of why the report was requested:
The study was requested by Rep. Todd Platts, R‑Pa., chairman of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on…
As I posted earlier, GAO has released its second grants streamlining report. They surveyed grantees for this one, and found that many of the goals of P.L. 106–107 have not yet been met. (Hands up — who’s surprised? I thought so…) Here’s…
GAO just released its second report on grants streamlining. I’m digesting it this afternoon and will report back with a briefing later on. For now, here’s the link:
Grants Management: Grantees’ Concerns with Efforts to Streamline and Simplify Processes. GAO-06–566, July 28http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06–566Highlights…
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.…
