Update to GEB

Yesterday, the PMO made its end-of-fiscal-year presentation to the Grants Executive Board. The following information was provided.

1. Grants.gov is undergoing a "speed & reliability upgrade" which will result in 3 new T-1000 servers being added to the system. The upgrade will be completed by October 2008.
2. The Grants.gov LDAP will be totally rebuilt and reconfigured to support the demands of the community. This work will be completed within 30 days of the completion of the speed & reliability upgrade.
3. Grants.gov completed 20 new forms this FY & 144 forms were converted from PureEdge to Adobe.
4. In August the first "S2S User Group Meeting" for the Grantor Community was held.
5. The website has been updated with additional information regarding "Eligibility for Grants."
6. The "Broken Pipe" remedy has been posted on the website. If the remedy is adhered to the problem is non-existent.
7. A "trouble-shooting page" has been added to the website addressing the top 10 issues/questions faced by the Contact Center.
8. A systems monitoring tool has been recommended to the PMO allowing it to review and monitor the: a) user experience and b) engage in system diagnositics.
9. The Adobe transition continues on schedule.
10. An RSS Feed has been added to the Grants.gov website.
11. The RFI to transition Grants.gov to a cloud computing model has been published.

One comment for all readers: It is vital that everyone transition to the RSS Feed because the nightly emails will soon be terminated and or significantly reduced. Grants.gov presently transmits >650,000 emails/day and the processing load on Grants.gov is tremendous. This energy could better be used to process applications.