Federal Fund Management Advisor
When the U.S. Office of Management and Budget rolled out its major federal grants reform initiative a couple years ago, it sought to consolidate and sensibly harmonize multiple sets of diverse administrative and cost requirements applicable to different kinds of award performers — colleges and universities, nonprofit organizations, and state and local governments. The resulting “Super Circular” (2 CFR 200) largely achieved OMB’s objectives, except in the case of procedures for developing, presenting and negotiating rates for recovery of indirect costs.
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The demand for integrated, easy-to-access government services has never been higher. While state and local governments have strived to meet this growing demand, agency silos continue to make the goal of a common and intuitive digital government experience difficult to achieve.
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National Priorities Project
This presentation, done in conjunction with the Association of Public Data Users, discusses the decline of federal spending data as a result of its transition from packaged government data to open government data. Specifically, the talk examines the Census Bureau's non-terminated Consolidated Federal Funds Report and USASpending.gov The presentation is about 30 minutes long, followed by a Q&A session.
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The National Academies
The Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable hosted a webinar to discuss the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), which was established in 2018 by the National Quantum Initiative Act. With support from the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) and more than 50 companies with a stake in quantum technologies, the QED-C mission is to strengthen U.S. leadership in the quantum technology industry.
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