October 18, 2024

Navigating the Agile Shift: FedRAMP’s Pursuit of Speed and Security

By Tige Nishimoto, TCG Solutions Development Director When you think of FedRAMP, certain words often arise: “cloud,” “security,” “standards,” “government.” Yet, sometimes, these are accompanied by terms like “cumbersome,” “heavy,” and “overwhelming.” The reputation for FedRAMP’s authorization process taking months,…
August 21, 2024

Supporting Citizen Development in Power Apps and Power Automate

By Tres Lewis, TCG Low-Code Lead Federal agencies that have implemented or are considering low-code solutions may have heard the phrase “citizen development” and wondered how feasible it is. Citizen development occurs when non-IT staff are empowered to develop their…
July 24, 2024

AWS Summit Conference 2024: AI Takes Center Stage

By Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO The AWS Summit Conference in Washington, DC, held in June 2024, marked the 13th iteration of this annual event. This year, the conference offered over 220 sessions, including breakouts, builder sessions, chalk talks, and workshops. Despite…
July 8, 2024

Insights from a Decade of CPARS Data at TCG

By Lisa Alferieff, TCG COO Companies that contract with the Federal government know that positive Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) ratings are gold and serve as a report card, of sorts, to help the government with future source selection. The government…
May 23, 2024

The Role of CAIOs in Driving Successful Federal AI Adoption

By Dia Adams, TCG Data Program Lead Spurred by White House Executive Order 14110  “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence”, and follow up guidance delivered on March 28, 2024 by OMB, the federal government is currently…
May 22, 2024

Trends from the 2024 RSA Security Conference

By Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO The 2024 RSA Security Conference was a lavish demonstration of marketing dollars at work. With flashy booths and gobs of “swag” (free T‑shirts, charging pads, batteries and toys), it was a challenge to cut through the jargon…
April 16, 2024

Low-Code, High Value: 5 Best Practices for Leveraging Low-Code Solutions

While the pandemic caused a sudden shift in how people work, the transition to a post pandemic normal has been marked by a two-steps-forward, one-step-backward dynamic. This has created clear challenges in how Federal agencies manage their workforce. Leaders created and revised new…
April 9, 2024

The Next Key Advancements in AI: Cooperative Agents, Long-Term Memory, and Executive Workflow

By Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO ChatGPT is amazing, but it hasn’t revolutionized the world as we might have first imagined. Why? Because it has significant limitations. However, there are exciting frameworks recently developed by AI researchers that give large language…
March 6, 2024

Cloud Wars: Azure’s AI Push Challenges AWS’s Dominance

By Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO For years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the gold standard in cloud technologies, setting the pace for innovation and scalability. Our experiences at TCG have mirrored this trend, with AWS’s robust toolkit enabling us…
December 12, 2023

DevOps and Automated Deployments for Confluence

Applying DevOps principles to projects based on customized Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) products can feel really hard sometimes. Honestly, the same can be said for a lot of Open Source projects as well.  It’s not that the software is bad…