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January 4, 2016
TCG Positively Charges Relationships with Subcontractors and Energizes Projects
Subcontractors “attracted” to continuing work with TCG
From August to late November, TCG surveyed our subcontractors to gauge our performance as a prime contractor. Happily, there were no “neutron” feelings among our partners and, thanks to strong management practices, prompt payment, and…
March 3, 2008
GMLOB alliances: The story so far
There has been much chattering and buzz about the fact that OMB should be providing GMLOB MOU feedback to agencies soon…if not having done so already. If you recall, agencies had to submit Memoranda of Understanding with GMLOB providers to…
July 6, 2005
New Blog, New Corporate Blogging Policy
At company meetings and email discussions, we realized that we had many opinions and ideas that we simply kept to ourselves. Therefore, TCG has decided to open a corporate blog so that we could share our thoughts on our areas of…
July 11, 2010
On the Wisdom of Natural Language Programming
“Computer, how many new email messages do I have?”
“About 300.”
“How many interesting ones?”
“When is an email message ‘interesting’?”
“Let’s call an email interesting if it came from work or from someone I wrote to in the past week.”
“You have…
April 10, 2007
Survey on government adoption of SaaS
SaaS is the bizarre acronym for “Software as a Service” (better than “SS”, though, undoubtedly) and Government Futures, who I blogged about a while ago, is conducting a survey to take government and industry’s pulse about SaaS’s use and prospects. From their latest e‑mail…
April 14, 2009
NITRC projects wins Excellence.Gov Award!
I have some very exciting news: One of our projects has won the overall, top 2009 Excellence.Gov Award! The NIH’s Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) project was recognized for its achievements in helping researchers collaborate to develop even…
September 1, 2022
Four Keys to Successful O&M for a Growing Shared Service
As shared services grow and increase their customer base, the complexity of operations and maintenance (O&M) grows with it. A larger and more diverse user base comes with higher expectations and the likely need for 24/7/365 availability. Minor changes can have…
November 9, 2006
Federal IT’s fortunes unclear under new Senate and House leadership
Washington Technology offers great insight on how Tuesday’s election results may impact federal IT spending. The summary is:
In the Senate, Joe Lieberman will likely continue his support of e‑government initiatives, in his new role as chairman of the Homeland…
January 14, 2006
Anonym.os Will Change Your Life
Well, it may not actually change your life, but if you’re in the security field it’s going to make life more difficult.
I’m at the second annual Shmoocon, a “hacker” conference mostly devoted to white-hat efforts and general good-gut-type things.…
January 13, 2020
Can Machine Learning Solve Your Problem?
By Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
Machine learning (ML) is all over the news. It can beat humans at Go, but has caused a backlash grading Utah students’ essays. So what problems can we effectively solve by an ML system right now? Here…