NSF Digital Data Access
In response to the President’s Digital Government Strategy, the National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks guidance in prioritizing its efforts. NSF is seeking input to help identify what NSF data sets…
Author: Roger Wood
OMB Requires Agencies to Test Data Collection Forms
In an August 9th memorandum from the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), a component of the Office of Management and Budget, the Obama administration instructed federal agencies to…
Electronic Routing for Review and Approval
Review and approval processes at institutions large and small are at once necessary and painful. Grant and contract proposals and many other kinds of documents have to be carried around…
Funding Higher Education in Australia
A new report published by the Grattan Institute, written by Andrew Norton, titled “Graduate Winners”, proposes that: Most students should pay more for higher education, given howmuch they benefit from…
Multi-Institutional Research Collaboration is Increasing
A new study recently published by the National Science Foundation (NSF) on this topic (NSF 12-235, Collaboration in Academic R&D: A Decade of Growth in Pass-Through Funding) demonstrates an increase…
System for award managment – SAM – coming online soon
CCR (the Central Contractor Registration) will transition to SAM at the end of July. CCR must stop accepting new data in order to successfully migrate the existing data into SAM.…
DATA Act – Update in the US Senate
The US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing on July 18th: Show Me the Money: Improving the Transparency of Federal Spending. The purpose of this…
The US Biomedical Workforce Redux
Charging a working group of the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director to consider the future of the US biomedical workforce was discussed in a prior InfoEdge article. That working…
What is Government Transparency Worth?
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report published in February, 2011 found numerous examples of overlap and potentially unnecessary duplication in government programs or activities. They concluded that potentially billions oft…
Is the Data Act dead in the Senate?
An item in Fedblog at the Government Executive website notes that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), who heads the Government Oversight and Reform panel which fostered the DATA Act to passage…