(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) A working group of the National Science and Technology Council’s Research Business Models (RBM) subcommittee is taking steps to update the existing governmentwide research terms and…

It seems like yesterday, but it was actually 15 years ago. Folks in their 30s and up probably remember the panic surrounding the Y2K technology concerns. In late 1999, there were concerns that the computers at that time couldn’t distinguish…

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Single Audit Information Service.) In response to a recent Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury (TCT) audit, the child care program director for the Tennessee Department of Education (TDE) plans to…

The grants community is becoming aware of the importance of having internal controls, and using the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission’s (COSO) internal control model to ensure that their grant programs aren’t targets of fraud, waste and…

(The following was excerpted from an article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) A key goal under the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) uniform grant guidance is to improve program performance to achieve better outcomes; however, program consolidation is…

It appears that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is placing a greater emphasis this year on cleaning up the nation’s watersheds. A recent USDA blog post touted that 70 percent of the 100-plus projects under in the first wave of funding…

One of the key technical corrections that the Office of Management and Budget and the Council on Financial Assistance Reform made in the revised uniform guidance was to remove references to the Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) Data Universal Numbering System…

(The following was excerpted from an article in the Single Audit Information Service.) New York City’s Office of Management and Budget planned to strengthen controls over its Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Assistance (CDBG-DR) reimbursements to ensure that all…

(The following was excerpted from an article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) Institutions with researchers conducting dual use research of concern (DURC) under Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants and cooperative agreements…

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