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September 11, 2006
Anteon is the new Grants.gov systems integrator
Anteon was named the new systems integrator for Grants.gov today, according to the NITAAC contract awards web site. I’ll have more analysis of this in a later post.…
September 8, 2006
S.2590 passed in Senate
The Senate today passed the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, known at S.2590, reports GovExec. This bill creates an online database of federal grants and contract funding (unlike H.R.5060 which looks only at grants). It’s about time this information…
September 6, 2006
Good history of US federal government IT contracting
Over 95% of TCG’s work is with US federal government agencies. Washington Technology has just published a history of US government contracting that provides a pretty good background of the marketplace and how it’s changed over the last 20 years. Here are…
NIST publishes secure Web Services
NIST has published a paper (Special Publication 800–95)that addresses the problem of deploying Web Services in an SOA while maintaining security. Some of their recommendations:
Using XML encryption to ensure confidentiality.
Using XML signatures to ensure integrity.
Using Security Assertion Markup…
September 5, 2006
E‑Gov at Five Years, Part Five
In the final part of his review of US federal e‑gov activities Daniel Pulliam looks at the lines of business initiatives, which many regard as the next phase of e‑government. The Grants Management Line of Business and Grants.gov are mentioned…
September 1, 2006
E‑Gov at Five Years
GovExec has a series of articles ( 1, 2, 3, 4) reviewing the history of US federal government e‑gov initiatives — their genesis, funding, and results. It’s a good review for anyone playing catch-up, and Grants.gov makes an appearance a couple of times.…
S.2590 — A month of procedural nonsense
It’s been quite a month for S.2590, the bill that proposes to establish an easily searchable database of all federal grants and contracts, and about which I’ve blogged several times (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). The bill had a hold put…
August 31, 2006
Dreaming of an English-Based Object Oriented Language
MIT’s media lab has created “Metaphor”, a facinating tool that parses
standard English into a programmatic pseudo-code. Take a look at: http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2005/032305/Tool_turns_English_to_code_032305.html. Metaphor seems very cool, but to deal with the ambiguities of its English parser, it ends up with non-working pseudo-code. They…
August 29, 2006
Quick File Thunderbird extension
I have a lot of folders in my Thunderbird install, to track projects, people, companies, and so on. When I receive mail, most of it is filtered out into the appropriate folders but that leaves plenty of others that are not caught by…
August 21, 2006
GAO report panel discussion — got questions?
The National Grants Partnership is planning to host a panel discussion about the GAO’s last report about grants streamlining on September 12th. It looks like I will be moderating the panel, so if you’ve got a question that you’d like addressed to some…