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Sneak Preview: NASA To Revise Improper Payment Review Procedures

December 15, 2017 – 8:46 am

(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Single Audit Information Service.) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to revise by September 2018 its procedures for conducting improper payment risk assessments to ensure all agency programs,…

By Jerry Ashworth | Posted in Funding Agencies, Improper Payments | Also tagged improper payments | Comments (0)

OMB Memorandum Seeks Undisbursed Balances Info from Four Agencies

July 20, 2016 – 7:17 am

It’s been pretty busy over the last week or two at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), although the news coming out of OMB doesn’t yet include the 2016 Compliance Supplement. Of interest to the single audit community, OMB…

By Jerry Ashworth | Posted in Funding Agencies, Grants Management, Improper Payments | Also tagged Commerce, justice, National Science Foundation, undisbursed balances | Comments (0)

The Confusion Wrought by ‘The China Thing’

September 5, 2012 – 10:47 am

It sounds like a good, patriotic thing to do at first, restricting bilateral activity with China. But, oh, the questions it has raised. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration now dubs it “The China Thing.”

By Jerry Ashworth | Posted in Awards, Grant Seeking, Grants Management, Legislation | Also tagged bilateral, China, FDP, multilateral | Comments (0)

Sneak Preview: OSTP Advised To Reduce STEM Program Overlap

February 23, 2012 – 6:00 am

(The following was excerpted from an article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) Because several federal agencies provide funding for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education programs, the Government Accountability Office urged the Office of Science and Technology Policy…

By Jerry Ashworth | Posted in Funding Agencies, Grants Management | Also tagged GAO, OSTP, Sneak Preview, STEM | Comments (0)

Grants Systems and the Aircraft Carrier

February 1, 2011 – 8:01 pm

What’s the old saw about turning around an aircraft carrier and change not happening overnight? Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the U.S.S. Federal Government.