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Project Budgeting for New Grant Writers

Peak Proposals

Grant proposals have at least two parts: the project narrative and the budget (aka cost proposal). There may not be a division of responsibilities between the cost and narrative proposals at a small nonprofit, leaving the project lead (or the grant writer) to both write the proposal narrative and prepare the budget.

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4 best practices to enhance research IT operations with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS Partners offer several services directed to research workloads, such as simple interfaces that help researchers create and control AWS computing resources, set and monitor budgets, and forecast spend ; secure, performant, and scalable research environments ; and open source HPC resource provisioning.

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Another Warning About the Nation’s Fiscal Health and Financial Record Keeping

GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

saw a budget deficit above $1 trillion. Fiscal year 2024 marked the fifth year in a row that the U.S. If no action is taken, we project that growing deficits will result in federal debt held by the public (federal debt) reaching its historical high.

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Over Budget and Delayed—What’s Next for U.S. Nuclear Weapons Research and Production Projects?

GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

The United States’ nuclear weapon stockpile depends on facilities that are, on average, about 50 years old. In fact, the processing of enriched uranium used in nuclear weapons is still conducted in an Oppenheimer-era facility built in 1945.

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The Coast Guard’s Efforts to Attain Mission Critical Ships Are Delayed and Over Budget

GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

Coast Guard plays a key role in national defense and security—patrolling areas like our ports and waterways, and operating in the Arctic and Antarctic. However, efforts to build and buy two types of ships that are critical to the Guard’s.

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Aligning the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS with UK National Cyber Security Centre guidance

AWS Public Sector Blog

With this solution, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. Organisations should consider enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) to protect these highly privileged accounts. userIdentity.userName = "breakGlassUser0*") && ($.userIdentity.invokedBy

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Funding and Programs Meant to Help Tribes May Not Be Reaching Them

GAO (US Government Accountability Office)

Each year, Congress budgets billions of dollars for programs that could support American Indian and Alaska Native communities. But much of this money doesn’t reach Tribes. In a new report, we looked at the barriers and other challenges Tribes face.

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