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February 14, 2018
Why TCG Takes the High Road
By Daniel Turner, TCG President
In February 2017, TCG endorsed the American Business Sustainability Council’s (ASBC) Principles of a High Road Employer. Why? Because these principles embrace all of the TCG’s core values, such as to be fair, honest, and open;…
April 16, 2008
Shared services = standard services
Rant alert.
Larry Neff is the Deputy CFO at DOT, which runs an FMLOB shared services center. In this FCW article he makes it clear what the mission of these government shared service centers is:
…Neff said, agencies that require…
April 7, 2009
A Fun Little Math Problem in System Optimization
Recently, a company with whom we work had a Web site that wasn’t as fast as they wanted. So they ran a series of tests using Apache’s benchmarking tool:
Running a simple “Hello World” page: 500 pages/second
“Hello World” plus turning on “feature A”:…
November 8, 2006
Altum acquires Easygrants from defunct Arlington Group
I see that our friends at Altum have acquired Arlington Group’s Easygrants software! This is a great development for Easygrant users because support was non-existent as a consequence of Arlington Group shutting up shop. Altum’s a great company and their founder, Ken Fang, is…
January 13, 2006
NIH BCIG Book Club
The NIH Biomedical Computing Interest Group (BCIG) has organized a book club which is holding its first event on January 26 at 5.30pm at the NIH Clinical Center (Building 10), Medical Board Room (Room 2C116). The first event will be a discussion…
January 2, 2020
What’s the Process for Filling Senior Level Positions in Federal Government?
The Presidential appointment process has gotten a lot of attention from the press lately for a variety of reasons. Understandably so, the path to getting appointed to senior office can be quite complex, depending on the role a nominee is seeking. Among the…
November 11, 2008
Lines of Business: OMB’s Mistakes and How It Can Fix Them
Here is the fundamental challenge: Each new grant program passed by Congress creates a tiny new fiefdom in a government agency. This fiefdom directly gets funding and has the ability in many cases to set up its own management processes and systems.…
August 30, 2012
TCG’s Judith Turner to Chair NGMA Technology Committee
TCG vice president Judith Turner has been named the new chairman of the National Grants Management
Association’s (NGMA) Technology Committee. Judith also serves on NGMA’s Board of Directors. The first job of the technology committee will be to review the…
March 24, 2009
FDP posts draft agenda for May meeting
The FDP has now posted the draft agenda for their May meeting, which includes a panel on how to manage and administer ARRA funds, as well as the usual federal agency updates. I won’t be at this meeting, even though Newport Beach,…
November 30, 2009
TCG Re-awarded GSA Schedule
TCG has been has been re-awarded its GSA Schedule Number GS-00F-0034P for a third time by the General Services Administration. The new term of the renewal will carry the program through November 2014 and provide government agencies with continued easy access…