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September 28, 2006
Franchise funds and the GMLOB
We’ve been doing some research into the business models that are driving the various Lines of Business initiatives, and recently compiled some information about Federal franchise funds that we thought might be good to share.
“Franchise funds” is a 1994 program that…
March 5, 2012
SmartCEO Recognizes TCG Management Team
TCG’s president, Dan Turner, and the TCG executive management team are featured in two articles in the March issue of SmartCEO magazine. TCG’s management team is featured as one of the best senior leadership teams in Washington, DC, and is…
May 22, 2007
FDP Meeting this week
I’ll be at the FDP meeting on Thursday afternoon and briefly on Friday morning. My primary interests are the sessions on Grants.gov, Research.gov, and GMLOB, and it’s always fun to bump into new folks. If you’d like to meet up…
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;…
December 29, 2011
PHP Code Review Checklist
I recently created a code review checklist for a PHP based project I was working on. If you want to be pedantic, it’s actually a list of questions that the reviewers should ask themselves as they look through the code.
This isn’t an exhaustive list…
August 1, 2006
ITIL and EA are not the same thing
GCN has an interview with Malcolm Fry, who’s considered the “father” of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Fry says that “ITIL is, to some degree, enterprise architecture”. But as Wikipedia accurately describes, ITIL is a set of service management best practices.…
July 9, 2013
TCG’s Dan Turner Featured in SmartCEO Magazine
TCG president Dan Turner is featured in the Federally Speaking column of the July issue of the
Washington, DC edition of SmartCEO magazine. The Federally Speaking column, written by Rebecca Kirkman, focuses on government contractors in the Washington, DC metropolitan area,…
September 13, 2006
DUNS/CCR Study released
For the last while, a collaborative group formed by members of the National Grants Partnership and Federal Demonstration Partnership have been working on a study to uncover the “issues that exist with DUNS number management and the CCR registration process.” The study…
February 5, 2008
9 GMLOB MOUs signed; others appealing
The inimitable Jason Miller at Washington Technology reports that:
The policy guidance [issued by OMB as passback language to agencies alongside the FY09 budget request also addressed the Grants Management Line of Business. Agencies were to have chosen one of…
June 5, 2025
Policy Shifts and Energy Costs: Lessons from the 2025 ForumGlobal US AI Summit
by Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
On June 3, ForumGlobal held their 2025 US AI Summit with federal, state, and industry leaders. The Summit made it clear that tomorrow’s AI landscape is governed by two variables we don’t control: policy whiplash and…