http://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2013/10/gov-unplugged-heres-whats-shut-down-during-shutdown/71148/?oref=govexec_today_nl

 

Hi Theresa,

 

This link will take you to an illuminating write up about the impact of the shut down on various types of USG websites; your note arrived as I was reading it.  It also links to the White House memo providing guidance on different types of sites:

 

White House guidance calls for government websites to be switched off during a shutdown unless they’re connected with excepted activities, such as protecting national security or federal property. In those cases, the sites should be “maintained at the lowest possible level” to protect security and functionality. Non-excepted sites should be switched off even if it will cost more to start them back up after the shutdown is over than to turn them off in the first place, the guidance states.

 

With kind regards, Madison

 

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Senior Assistant Director

Office of Contract & Research Administration (OCRA)

Vanderbilt University

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phone: 615-343-1374

 

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From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org] On Behalf Of Theresa Defino
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 7:48 AM
To: xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] NSF chemistry proposals deadline

 

When the next or when the previous deadline was? And I apologize that I do not know...
I can't understand why agencies are taking their entire sites offline. Most are just putting up a warning about lack of updating, but removing the entire site seems unwarranted.

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