Guardians of Honor

Since 2004, GOH has provided analytic, technical, program management, and outreach support for NSF EHR Grant Programs, including support for NSF Committee of Visitors (COVs) and the EHR Evaluation and Knowledge Management initiative (EKMI). COVs are external panels of experts charged with reviewing grant program administration, management, and performance at the program-, office-, division-level, or directorate-level to inform grant program policies, procedures and budget justification and enhance program transparency. In support of EKMI, GOH provided grant project, program, division, directorate, and portfolio management, data analytics, tracking, assessment, and reporting solutions to support post-award administration, monitoring, reporting, and high-level accountability. The GOH team developed numerous trackers and tools to support various levels of GPRA financial and performance reporting for more than 30 discretionary grant programs within NSF. In addition, GOH was instrumental in data extraction and analysis, budget analysis, and strategic planning and reporting required for EHR mission critical activities, including preparing reports in compliance with the Government Performance and Reporting Act (GPRA), Performance and Results Act (PART), American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI), American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and the America COMPETES and RECOMPETES Acts. Our reputation for high-quality analytics and data management enabled key GOH resources to become invaluable assets in strategic program performance, management, and impact reporting activities incorporated into more than 20 congressional responses and testimonies and countless outreach activities.